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Demetrio

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Demetrio

Libretto by Pietro Metastasio; also an opera by Antonio Caldara, first produced at the court in Vienna, Austria, on 4 November 1731. There are further settings by Johann Hasse (1732), Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1742), and Niccolò Jommelli (1749). In the story, Cleomice, new queen of Syria, must choose a husband. She loves Alcestis, a commoner, whom the rival Olinto orders to leave the country. When it is revealed that Alcestis is in fact Prince Demetrius, the marriage goes ahead.



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