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  2. Mitridate, re di Ponto - Wikipedia

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    Mitridate, re di Ponto (Mithridates, King of Pontus), K. 87 (74a), is an opera seria in three acts by the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto is by Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi , after Giuseppe Parini's Italian translation of Jean Racine's play Mithridate. Mozart wrote Mitridate while touring Italy in 1770.

  3. Jean Racine - Wikipedia

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    Jean-Baptiste Racine (/ r æ ˈ s iː n / rass-EEN, US also / r ə ˈ s iː n / rə-SEEN; French: [ʒɑ̃ batist ʁasin]; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature.

  4. Mithridate (Racine) - Wikipedia

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    Mithridates was the favorite tragedy of another great king, Louis XIV. Over the centuries, the play has become increasingly rare on stage. Today, it is one of the least performed works of Racine. The play formed the basis for Mozart's opera Mitridate, re di Ponto (1770).

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  6. Esther (play) - Wikipedia

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    Title page from the 1689 edition of Esther. Esther is a play in three acts written in 1689 by the French dramatist, Jean Racine.It was premièred on January 26, 1689, performed by the pupils of the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, an educational institute for young girls of noble birth.

  7. Athalie - Wikipedia

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    Athalie (, sometimes translated Athalia) is a 1691 play, the final tragedy of Jean Racine, and has been described as the masterpiece [1] [2] of "one of the greatest literary artists known" [3] and the "ripest work" of Racine's genius. [4] Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve deemed it comparable to Oedipus Rex in beauty, with "the true God added."

  8. Bajazet (play) - Wikipedia

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    Bajazet (French:) is a five-act tragedy by Jean Racine written in alexandrine verse and first performed at the Hôtel de Bourgogne theatre in January 1672, after Berenice, and before Mithridate. Like Aeschylus in The Persians , Racine took his subject from contemporary history, taking care to choose a far off location, the Ottoman Empire .

  9. Bérénice - Wikipedia

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    Berenice (French: Bérénice) is a five-act tragedy by the French 17th-century playwright Jean Racine. Berenice was not played often between the 17th and the 20th centuries. It was premiered on 21 November 1670 by the Comédiens du Roi at the Hôtel de Bourgogne . [ 1 ]