''Ipermestra'' (''Hypermnestra'') is an

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by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. It takes the form of an opera seria in three acts. The Italian-language libretto is by

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. The opera premiered on 21 November 1744 at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo in

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. ''Ipermestra'' is the first of Gluck's operas to survive complete.

Roles

References

*''The Viking Opera Guide'', ed. Amanda Holden (Viking, 1993), p. 371. *Alfred Wotquenne ''Catalogue thématique des œuvres de Chr. W. v. Gluck'' (Georg Olms Verlag, 1967) 1744 operas Italian-language operas Operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck Operas {{Italian-opera-stub