Fedra (Mayr)

Fedra is an opera (melodramma serio) in two acts composed by Simon Mayr to an Italian-language libretto by Luigi Romanelli based on Racine's play Phèdre.

It premiered on 26 December 1820 at La Scala in Milan with Teresa Belloc-Giorgi in the title role.^[1][2] The German premiere of the opera took place at the Staatstheater Braunschweig on 30 March 2008, 188 years after its first performance.

Recordings

Year	Cast	Conductor, Opera house and orchestra	Label
2008	Capucine Chiaudani, Tomasz Zagorski, Rebecca Nelsen, Dae-Bum Lee, Hyo-Jin Shin, Jorn Lindemann	Gerd Schaller, Chorus of the Staatstheater Braunschweig, Staatsorchester Braunschweig	CD: Oehms Classics OC 920[3][4]