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Literature

* ''Alcestis'' (play), a 438 BC play by Euripides *Alceste, a character in '' The Legend of Good Women'' by Chaucer *Alceste, a character in '' Le Misanthrope'' by Molière


Operas

* ''Alceste'' (Lully), a 1674 opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully * ''Alceste'' (Handel), a 1750 opera by George Frideric Handel * ''Alceste'' (Gluck), a 1767 opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck * ''Alceste'' (Schweitzer), a 1773 opera by Anton Schweitzer * ''Alceste'' (Strungk), a 1680 opera by
Nicolaus Adam Strungk Nicolaus Adam Strungk (christened 15 November 1640 in Braunschweig – 23 September 1700 in Dresden) was a German composer and violinist. Life Nicolaus Adam was the son of the organist Delphin Strungk. He studied organ under his father, then a ...
*''Alceste'', a 1768 opera by
Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi (9 December 1728 – 19 November 1804) was an Italian opera composer of the classical period. Biography Guglielmi was born into the Guglielmi family of musicians in Massa. His father, Jacopo Guglielmi, was a comp ...
*''Alceste'', a 1922 opera by
Rutland Boughton Rutland Boughton (23 January 187825 January 1960) was an English composer who became well known in the early 20th century as a composer of opera and choral music. He was also an influential communist activist within the Communist Party of Gre ...


Other uses

* Alcestis or Alceste, a princess in Greek mythology * ''Alceste'' (trilobite), a trilobite genus * HMS ''Alceste'' (1793), a 32-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1793 and sold in 1802 * HMS ''Alceste'' (1806), a 38-gun fifth rate captured in 1806 and wrecked in 1817


People with the given name

* Alceste De Ambris, Italian socialist {{disambiguation, given name