Roles
| Original version Role |
Revised version Role |
Voice type | Original version Premiere cast Vienna, 1767 (conductor: - ) |
Revised version Premiere cast Paris, 1776 (conductor: - ) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alceste (Alcestis), Queen of Pherae in Thessaly | Alceste, Queen of Thessaly | soprano | Antonia Bernasconi | Rosalie Levasseur |
| Admeto (Admetus), her husband | Admète, her husband | tenor | Giuseppe Tibaldi | Joseph Le Gros |
| Eumelo and Aspasia, their children |
Their two children (silent characters) |
trebles (1767) | ||
| Evandro (Evander), a confidant of Admetus | Evandre, leader of the Pherae people | tenor | Antonio Pilloni | Thirot (o Tirot) |
| Ismene, a confidante of Alcestis |
|
soprano | Teresa Eberardi |
|
| High Priest of Apollo | High Priest | baritone | Filippo Laschi | Nicolas Gélin |
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|
Hercule (Hercules) | baritone |
|
Henri Larrivée |
| Apollo | Apollon (Apollo), protector of the house of Admetus | baritone | Filippo Laschi | Jean-Pierre (?) Moreau |
| Infernal deity | Thanathos, an infernal deity | bass | ||
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Choryphaei (chorus leaders) | soprano, contralto, baritone, bass |
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| Oracle | bass | |||
| Herald | baritone | Domenico Poggi | ||
| Chorus (1767): courtiers, citizens, Alcestis's maids of honour, priests of Apollo, gods of the underworld | ||||
| Chorus (1776): officers of the palace, Alcestis's attendants, citizens of Pherae, infernal deities, priests and priestesses in the temple of Apollo | ||||
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