''Elena'' also known as ''Elena e Costantino'' is an 1814 opera semiseria by Johann Simon Mayr to a libretto by Leone Tottola. The opera premiered in Naples in 1814 and was later adjusted for La Scala in 1816 where Meyerbeer may have heard it using the same plot in Emma di Resburgo. Goethe and Zelter's correspondence makes mention of the sextet in Act 2, as reported by

Stendhal Marie-Henri Beyle (; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (, ; ), was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels ''Le Rouge et le Noir'' ('' The Red and the Black'', 1830) and ''La Chartreuse de ...

.Lorraine Byrne Bodley ''Goethe and Zelter: Musical Dialogues'' 2017 p 238 "In Act Two of Elena, an opera by old Mayr of Bergamo,251 there is said to be a very effective sextet; it is said to be based on a popular Bohemian melody...

Recordings

* Elena Julia Sophie Wagner, Daniel Ochoa, Mira Graczyk, Niklas Mallmann, Markus Schäfer, Simon Mayr Chorus, Concerto de Bassus, Franz Hauk Naxos 2021

References

{{Simon Mayr Operas 1814 operas Operas by Simon Mayr Italian-language operas