Iphigenia in Aulis
Music by Carl Heinrich Graun
Iphigenia in Aulis is a German opera by Carl Heinrich Graun to a libretto by Leopold Villati premiered 1728, then 1731 at the Gänsemarkt opera Hamburg. Johann Georg Sulzer declared the opera an example of Handel and Graun attaining the sublime. Graun returned to the same subject two decades later for his Ifigenia in Aulide (3 acts, 1748)
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About the Composer
Carl Heinrich Graun (7 May 1704 – 8 August 1759) was a German composer and tenor. Along with Johann Adolph Hasse, he is considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera of his time.
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