Ifigenia (Pizzetti)

Ifigenia
Opera by Ildebrando Pizzetti
Iphigenia (1862) by Anselm Feuerbach
LibrettistIldebrando Pizzetti and Alberto Perrini
LanguageItalian
Premiere
3 October 1950 (1950-10-03)

Ifigenia is a tragic opera in one act by Ildebrando Pizzetti, who also wrote the libretto with Alberto Perrini. The libretto is in Italian language. It was premiered as a radio broadcast from RAI Auditorium in Turin on 3 October 1950. In the same year, it received the first prize of Prix Italia radio annual award, that was held in Turin. The opera made its theatrical debut at Teatro Comunale in Florence on 9 May 1951 during the 14th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino festival.