Fedra (Mayr)

Simon Mayr

Operas Saffo (1796) La Lodoiska (1796) Telemaco (1796) Che originali! (1798) Adelaide di Guesclino (1799) Ginevra di Scozia (1801) L'amor coniugale (1805) Amore non soffre opposizioni (1810) Medea in Corinto (1813) La rosa bianca e la rosa rossa (1813) Fedra (1820) Demetrio, Re di Siria (1823) See also: List of operas by Mayr
Oratorios Iacob a Labano fugiens (1791) Sisara (1793) Tobiae matrimonium (1794) La Passione (1794) David in spelunca Engaddi (1795) Il sagrifizio di Jefte (1795) Samuele (1821) Atalia (1822) Gioas (1823)

Fedra is an opera (melodramma serio) in two acts composed by Simon Mayr to an Italian-language libretto by Luigi Romanelli based on Racine's play Phèdre.

It premiered on 26 December 1820 at La Scala in Milan with Teresa Belloc-Giorgi in the title role.^[1]^[2] The German premiere of the opera took place at the Staatstheater Braunschweig on 30 March 2008, 188 years after its first performance.

Recordings

Year	Cast	Conductor, Opera house and orchestra	Label^[3]
2008	Capucine Chiaudani, Tomasz Zagorski, Rebecca Nelsen, Dae-Bum Lee, Hyo-Jin Shin, Jorn Lindemann	Gerd Schaller, Chor des Staatstheaters Braunschweig, Staatsorchester Braunschweig.	CD: Oehms Classics OC 920

References

↑ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005) "26 Dicembre 1820". Almanacco Amadeus, Retrieved 8 July 2013 (in Italian).
↑ Libretti d'Opera. Fedra (Giovanni Simone Mayr). Retrieved 8 July 2013 (in Italian).
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External links

Complete libretto (published in Milan 1821; digitised by the Bavarian State Library)

Jean Racine's Phèdre (1677)
Characters	Phèdre Hippolyte Théramène Thésée Aricie
Origins	Phaedra (Seneca play)
Opera adaptations	Hippolyte et Aricie (1733) Ippolito ed Aricia (1759) Fedra (1820)
Other	Phaedra (Britten cantata)

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