A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Tarare

by George Grove

TARARE. Opera, in prologue and 5 acts (afterwards 3 acts); words by Beaumarchais, music by Salieri. Produced at the Grand Opéra June 8, 1787. Translated into Italian (with many changes of text and music) as 'Axur, Re d'Ormus,' for the betrothal of the Archduke Franz with Princess Elizabeth of Wurtemberg at Vienna, Jan. 8, 1788. Produced in English as 'Tarrare, the Tartar Chief,' at the English Opera House, London, Aug. 15, 1825.

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