Antigona (Mysliveček)

Antigona is an Italian opera in three acts by the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček set to a libretto by Gaetano Roccaforte.

All of Mysliveček's are of the serious type in Italian language referred to as opera seria.

The opera was first performed at the Teatro Regio in Turin on 26 December 1773 at the beginning of the 1774 carnival operatic season.

[1] Opera productions at the royal court of Turin, which were sponsored only for the carnival season that took place at the beginning of each year, were famed for their lavish staging.

Antigona was revived for performances in Prague and Schloss Rheinsberg in 2006 and Biel, Switzerland, in 2011, with the title role sung by Mexican soprano Rosa Elvira Sierra (stage director Andreas Rosar, conductor Moritz Caffier).