Philemon und Baucis (Haydn)

Philemon und Baucis
Opera by Joseph Haydn
Portrait by Thomas Hardy, 1791
LanguageGerman
Based onPhilemon und Baucis: Ein Schauspiel in Versen von einem Aufzuge by Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel
Premiere
2 September 1773 (1773-09-02)
Esterháza puppet theater

Philemon und Baucis, oder Jupiters Reise auf die Erde (Philemon and Baucis, or Jupiter's Journey to Earth), Hob. XXIXb:2, is an opera in one act by Austrian composer Joseph Haydn to a German libretto, possibly by Prince Esterházy's librarian, Phillip Georg Bader. The text is based upon a play by G. K. Pfeffel, itself a retelling of the Baucis and Philemon myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The work is in the form of a Singspiel.

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