Il Paride

{{Short description|Opera by Giovanni Andrea Bontempi}}

{{Infobox opera

| name = Il Paride

| genre_header = Opera

| composer = Giovanni Andrea Bontempi

| image = L'Enlèvement d'Hélène - Guido Reni - Musée du Louvre Peintures INV 539 ; MR 288 - photo 2.jpg

| image_upright = 1.3

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| caption = Helen's abduction by Paris, the opera's central theme

| librettist = Giovanni Andrea Bontempi

| language = Italian

| premiere_date = {{Start date|1662|11|03|df=y}}

| premiere_location = Dresden Castle

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Il Paride is an opera in five acts composed by Giovanni Andrea Bontempi who also wrote the libretto. The first Italian-language opera to be given in Dresden, it was first performed on 3 November 1662 at the Dresden Castle to celebrate the marriage of Erdmuthe Sophie von Sachsen, the daughter of John George II, Elector of Saxony, and Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.Buelow, George J. (2004). [https://books.google.com/books?id=aw1TTtpp4FwC&pg=PA242 A History of Baroque Music], p. 242. Indiana University Press. {{ISBN|0253343658}}Timms, Colin (1992). Grove Dictionary of Opera, Vol. 1, p. 544 (reprinted by the Boston Public Library in [https://archive.org/stream/ilparideoperamus00ange#page/n1/mode/2up notes to the original libretto]) The opera was revived on 21 June 2011 at the Potsdam Sanssouci Festival and on 24 August 2012 at the Tyrolean State Theatre as part of the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music.Innsbruck Festival of Early Music (2012). [http://www.altemusik.at/en/nocache/programme/archive-from-1978/opera-archive/detail/?tx_eventcalendarfw_pi1%5Bitem%5D=583 Opera archive: Il Paride]. Retrieved 27 April 2016.