Il re pastore (The Shepherd King) is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. It takes the form of a dramma per musica in three acts. The Italian-language libretto is by Pietro Metastasio. The opera premiered on 8 December 1756 at the Burgtheater, Vienna.
Roles RoleVoice typePremiere CastAlessandro, King of MacedoniatenorPietro MezzoAminta, a shepherd, rightful heir to Sidonsoprano castratoFerdinando MazzantiElisa, a noble nymph of Phoenicia, of the family of CadmussopranoCatarina GabrielliTamiri, a fugitive princess, daughter of the deposed tyrant Stratone sopranoFrancesca GabrielliAgenore, a Sidonian noblemansoprano castratoPaolo Bareggi
Sources Holden, Amanda The Viking Opera Guide (Viking, 1993), page 373. Gluck Gesamtausgabe Il re pastore