Ipermestra is an opera libretto by Pietro Metastasio first set by Johann Adolph Hasse 8 January 1744, and in the November of the same year by Christoff Willibald Gluck.
Plot The story is based on that of Hypermnestra (Ὑπερμνήστρα) in Greek mythology, the daughter of Danaus and the ancestor of the Danaids. The story had already been the theme of earlier operas including Hipermestra, by Francesco Cavalli 1658, and operas Ipermestra by Geminiano Giacomelli 1724, Eleanor Selfridge-Field - A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760 2007 0804744378 "All the daughters obeyed except Hypermnestra (Faustina Bordoni), who spared her cousin, the argonaut Lynceus (Antonio Bemacchi), on account of his kindness. The first Venetian performance of Ipermestra was given on 5 February 1724 " Antonio Vivaldi (1728 lost), Francesco Feo 1736, Giovanni Battista Ferrandini 1741, Rinaldo da Capua 1744.
Settings of Metastasio's libretto Ipermestra (Hasse), opera by Johann Adolf Hasse, Jan. 1744 Ipermestra (Gluck), opera by Christoff Willibald Gluck, Nov. 1744 - Aria "Non hai cor per un'impresa" recorded by Daniel Behle, Armonia Atenea and George Petrou Ipermestra, opera by Egidio Duni Teatro Falcone, Genoa 1748 Ipermestra, opera by Ferdinando Bertoni Teatro San Samuele, Venice 1749 Ipermestra, opera by Niccolò Jommelli Spoleto, 1751 Ipermestra, opera by Pasquale Cafaro, first setting, Naples 1751 Ipermestra, opera by Andrea Adolfati 1752, Modena Ipermestra, opera by Davide Perez 1754, Lisbon Ipermestra, opera by Giuseppe Re 1755, Teatro Solerio Alessandria Ipermestra, opera by Baldassare Galuppi 1758, Teatro Regio Ducale Milan Ipermestra, opera by Ignazio Fiorillo 1759, Braunschweig Ipermestra, opera by Johann Ernst Eberlin 1761, Salzburg Ipermestra, opera by Pasquale Cafaro 1761 second setting, Teatro San Carlo, Naples - an aria "Gonfio tu vedi il fiume" recorded by Franco Fagioli for the recital Arias for Caffarelli Ipermestra, opera by Giuseppe Sarti 1766, Teatro Argentina, Rome, then 1797 King’s Theatre, Haymarket, London Ipermestra, opera by Gian Francesco de Majo, 1768 Teatro San Carlo, Naples - to date the only recording of a setting of the libretto made in 1963 by RAI conducted by :it:Armando La Rosa Parodi. Cast included Emilia Cundari (Ipermestra), Franco Ventriglia (Danao), Herbert Handt (Linceo), Bianca Maria Casoni (Elpince), Mario Boriello (Plistene), Robert El Haage (Adrasto). Ipermestra, opera by Josef Mysliveček 1769, Teatro della Pergola, Florence Ipermestra, opera by Niccolò Piccinni 1772, Teatro San Carlo, Naples Ipermestra, opera by Gian Francesco Fortunati 1773, Teatro di Corte, Modena Ipermestra, opera by Johann Gottlieb Naumann 1774, Teatro San Benedetto, Venice Ipermestra, opera by Raimondo Mei 1778, Teatro Prini, Pavia Ipermestra, opera by Vicente Martín y Soler, 1780, Teatro San Carlo, Naples Ipermestra, opera by Salvatore Rispoli 1785, Teatro alla Scala, Milan Ipermestra, opera by Gennaro Astarita 1789, Teatro San Benedetto, Venice Ipermestra, opera by Giovanni Paisiello 1791, Teatro Nuovo, Padua Ipermestra, opera by Francesco Morlacchi 1810, Teatro Argentina, Rome Ipermestra, second opera by Saverio Mercadante 1827, Teatro de São Carlos Lisbon on the libretto by Metastasio - Mercadante had previously set another Ipermestra 1825, Teatro San Carlo, Naples, on a libretto by Luigi Ricciuti Ipermestra, opera by Baltasar Saldoni 1838, Teatro del la Cruz, Madrid Ipermestra, opera by Ramón Carnicer 1843, Liceo, Saragossa
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