''Iphigenia in Aulis'' is a German opera by

Carl Heinrich Graun 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. Biography Graun was born in Wahrenbrüc ...

to a libretto by Leopold Villati premiered 1728, then 1731 at the

Gänsemarkt Gänsemarkt (lit. ''Geese Market'') is a public square in Hamburg, Germany, located in the Neustadt quarter. The triangular urban square is accessible by streets of Jungfernstieg from the east, Dammtorstraße and Valentinskamp in the north west ...

opera Hamburg.

Johann Georg Sulzer Johann Georg Sulzer (; 16 October 1720 in Winterthur – 27 February 1779 in Berlin) was a Swiss professor of Mathematics, who later on moved on to the field of electricity. He was a Wolffian philosopher and director of the philosophical section ...

declared the opera an example of Handel and Graun attaining the sublime.Literature and Music in the Atlantic World, 1767-1867 Catherine Jones · 2014 p 257 Sulzer cites Handel's setting of Dryden's 'Alexander's Feast' and Graun's opera Iphigenia in Aulis (1728) to support his claim that these composers had frequently attained the sublime in their music ('Erhaben', in Johann Georg Sulzer, ... Graun returned to the same subject two decades later for his ''Ifigenia in Aulide'' (3 acts, 1748)

Recordings

*complete - Matthias Dähling, Andreas Heinemeyer, Santa Karnite, Mirko Ludwig, Genevieve Tschumi, Dominik Wörner, Hanna Zumsande, barockwerk hamburg, Ira Hochman 2CD CPO recorded 2021 released 2023

References

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