Lorenzo Da Ponte
Tarare is an opéra (tragédie lyrique) composed by Antonio Salieri to a French libretto by Pierre Beaumarchais. It was first performed by the Paris Opera at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin on 8 June 1787. Salieri also reworked the material into an Italian version retitled "Axur, re d'Ormus" with libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, which opened in Vienna in January 1788.