Works based on Alcestis (play)

opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck from 1767

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

play by T. S. Eliot

thumb|upright=1.1|George Frideric Handel '''''''''' ("Admetus, King of Thessaly", HWV 22) is a three-act opera written for the Royal Academy of Music with music composed by George Frideric Handel to an Italian-language libretto prepared by Nicola Francesco Haym. The story is partly based on Euripides' Alcestis. The opera's first performance was at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 31 January 1727. The original cast included Faustina Bordoni as Alcestis and Francesca Cuzzoni as Antigona, as Admeto was the second of the five operas that Handel composed to feature specifically these two '''' of

incidental music by Georg Friedrich Händel