1763 operas

opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1750)

thumb|Title page of the libretto (1763) Zanaida is a three-act opera seria with music by Johann Christian Bach and libretto based on Metastasio's Siface, re di Numidia by Giovanni Gualberto Bottarelli who relocated the action from North Africa to Persia. It debuted at the His Majesty's Theatre, London, on 7 May 1763.