Mozart: Il Re Pastore

Set in classical antiquity, Mozart's Il re pastore tells of the thwarted love of Aminta (the innocent "shepherd king" of the title) for the well-born Elisa, and that of the nobleman Agenore for the deposed tyrant's daughter Tamiri. No less a figure than Alexander the Great resolves these conflicts of private passion and public status. First performed in Salzburg in 1775, Sir Neville Marriner conducts a top international cast in this 1989 production of the opera from Salzburg's Landestheater.

Billed Cast

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Angela Maria Blasi

Aminta

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Iris Vermillion

Tamiri

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Claes H. Ahnsjö

Agenore

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Sylvia McNair

Elisa

Jerry Hadley

Alessandro

Neville Marriner

Conductor

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Academy of St. Martin in the fields

Orchestra