Il re pastore is a 1750 Italian-language opera libretto written by Metastasio."Italian/German libretto, Berlin State Library It was first set by Giuseppe Bonno in 1751, but best known today in the version by Gluck (1756) and Il re pastore by Mozart (1775).
Settings Giuseppe Bonno (Vienna, 27 October 1751)"Il re pastore, Bonno", Corago, University of Bologna (1752) Giuseppe Sarti (Pesaro, 1752) Francesco Antonio Baldassare Uttini (Drottningholm, 24 July 1755) Johann Adolph Hasse (Hubertusburg, 7 October 1755) Maria Teresa Agnesi (c. 1755–1760) Christoph Willibald Gluck (Vienna, 8 December 1756) – Il re pastore"Il re pastore, Gluck", Corago, University of Bologna Giovanni Battista Lampugnani (Milan, April 1758) (Bavaria, 1760) Niccolò Piccinni (Florence, 27 August 1760) Niccolò Jommelli (Ludwigsburg, 4 November 1764) Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi (Venice, 1767) Baldassare Galuppi (Parma, 1762) Felice Giardini (London, 7 March 1765) Antonio Tozzi (Braunschweig, 1766 or 1767) (1774) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Salzburg, 23 April 1775) – Il re pastore"Il re pastore, Mozart", Corago, University of Bologna Tommaso Giordani (London, 30 May 1768) (Dublin, carnival 1784) (1797) Johann Friedrich Agricola (?) (?) (1762, Dresden) Pietro Pompeo Sales (s. d.)
References
Further reading
External links