Category
page 1Works based on Alcestis (play)
Alceste
opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck from 1767
Alceste
opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully
The Cocktail Party
play by T. S. Eliot

Admeto
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
Alceste
incidental music by Georg Friedrich Händel