Demofonte (also Demofoonte; Il Demofoonte; Demofoonte, ré di Tracia [King of Thrace]; Démophon; Demophontes; or Dirce, L'usurpatore innocente [Dirce, the Innocent Usurper]) is an opera seria libretto by Metastasio. The libretto was first set by Antonio Caldara in 1733, but remained popular throughout the eighteenth century and was set over seventy times. General information Title and title abbreviation: Demofoonte (Demof.) dramma per musica – dm Volume and page number in the Brunelli edition of Metastasio's works: I, 635 Text incipit of the first line of the work: [Dircea:] "Credimi, o padre: ol tuo soverchio affetto" Composer of first setting: Antonio Caldara Place and date of first performance (or of completion): Vienna, Hoftheater, November 4, 1733 Occasion for the first performance: Name-day of the Emperor Charles VI Other settings The libretto, written in 1731 or 1733, became immensely popular. By 1800 it had inspired at least 73 operas (according to the Encyclopaedia Musical St. Petersburg: The 18th Century) Here is only the short list of the operas with the same title: Antonio Vivaldi, Demofoonte (RV deest; performance unknown) Felice Alessandri, Demofoonte (June 12, 1783 Padua) Pasquale Anfossi, Demofoonte (carnival 1773 Rome) Maksym Berezovsky, Demofonte (carnival February 1773 Livorno) Andrea Bernasconi, Demofoonte (carnival 1741 Rome) Antonio Boroni, [Baroni, Borroni, Buroni, Burroni] Demofoonte (carnival 1762 Turin) Giuseppe Brivio, Demofoonte (carnival 1738 Turin) , Demofoonte (February 5, 1735 Rome) Gioacchino Cocchi, Demofoonte (1754 Venice) Egidio Duni, Demofoonte (May 24, 1737 London) Johann Adolph Hasse, Demofoonte (1748) Baldassare Galuppi, Demofoonte (December 18, 1749 Madrid) Christoph Willibald Gluck, Demofoonte (January 6, 1743 Milan) Niccolò Jommelli, Demofoonte (1770 Naples) Francesco Mancini, Il Demofoonte (1735, Naples) [together with D. Sarro and F. Leo] Josef Mysliveček, Demofoonte, first setting, (carnival) 1769 Venice Josef Mysliveček, Demofoonte, second setting, birthday of King Charles III of Spain, 20 January 1775 Naples Giovanni Paisiello, Demofoonte (carnival 1775 Venice) Antonio Pampani, Demofoonte (carnival 1757 Rome) Davide Perez, Demofoonte (1752 Lisbon) Brizio Petrucci, Demofoonte (December 26, 1765 Ferrara) Niccolò Piccinni, Demofoonte (May 1761 Reggio Emilia) Giuseppe Sarti [Sardi], Demofoonte (January 30, 1771 Copenhagen, carnival 1782 Rome) , Il Demofoonte (carnival 1735 Venice) Joseph Schuster, Demofoonte (1776 Forlì) Angelo Tarchi, Demofoonte (September 1786 Crema, 1786 Milan) Tommaso Traetta, Demofoonte (Autumn 1758 Verona) Francesco Uttini, Demofoonte (c. 1750 Ferrara) Mattia Vento, Demofoonte (March 2, 1765 London Marcos Portugal (Marco Portogallo), Demofoonte (February 8, 1794 Milan, La Scala) Marcos Portugal (Marco Portogallo), Il Demofoonte Rev. (August 15, 1808