Johann Adolph Hasse - Ipermestra - german titlepage of the libretto - Hubertusburg 1751

''Ipermestra'' is an opera by

Johann Adolph Hasse Johann Adolph Hasse (baptised 25 March 1699 – 16 December 1783) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a co ...

. It was the first setting of the libretto by

Metastasio Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (), was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of ''opera seria'' libretti. Early life Me ...

, itself following in an already long tradition of operas based on

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' ''Suppliants''.Thalia Papadopoulou -Aeschylus: Suppliants - Page 2023 1472521501 2014 - 1724: Ipermestra. Geminiano Giacomelli. 1727: Ipermestra. Antonio Vivaldi. 1728: Ipermestra. Francesco Feo. 1736: Ipermestra. GiovanniBattista Ferrandini. 1741: Ipermestra. Rinaldo da Capua. 1744: Ipermestra. Johann Adolf Hasse. 1744: Ipermestra. Christoff Willibald Gluck. 1748: Ipermestra. Egidio Duni. 1748: Ipermestra. Ferdinando Bertoni. 1749: Ipermestra. Anonymous composer. 1751: Ipermestra. Niccolò Jommelli. 1751: Ipermestra. Pasquale Cafaro. 1752: Ipermestra. The opera has not received a modern recording, though

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recorded Impermestra's aria "Ma rendi pur contento" on ''Rokoko - Hasse Opera Arias'' (2012).

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