Admeto, re di Tessaglia at Theater an der Wien

Directly after Alessandro Opera seria Admeto, re di Tessaglia was very tailored to Senesino, Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni. Handel adapted the musical highlights the singers on the advantages of the famous Castrato and the from the London audience as "rival Queens" to be able to highlight known singers. The libretto was based on Euripides' tragedy of Alcestis, the second female protagonist of Antigona is fictitious. Admeto, King of Thessaly, can not decide three acts long between two women and his zaudernde title character in a completely atypical for a King situation represents Handel: Admeto is sick on his deathbed. Only if a related King
Person instead of his die, Admeto can be saved, is the prophecy of Apollo, the God of healing. His wife Alceste is reaching even a dagger in the chest, in order to save Admeto. His former fiancee Antigona, however, feels betrayed by Admeto and sees the just punishment of the gods in his illness. Unbeknownst to Admetus, his hospitality bring Hercules Alceste back from the underworld, which covered the fidelity of her husband to the test as a man. Admeto but remains undecided and don't know whether he is to remain faithful to the memory of his supposedly deceased wife or marry Gavin.