Whose operas include one about each of the following; a king of Pontus, The Shepherd King, a king of Egypt and a king of Crete?
Thamos, King of Egypt really Menes' daughter Tharsis, for whom the high priestess Mirza is plotting marriage to Pheron, a treacherous general. When Menes reveals his true identity, Pheron is struck by lightning and Mirza kills herself. Menes cedes his crown to Thamos and Tharsis as all ends happily. "Act 1" "Act 2" "Act 3" "Act 4" "Act 5" Thamos, King of Egypt Thamos, King of Egypt (or "King Thamos"; in German, "Thamos, König in Ägypten") is a play by Tobias Philipp, baron von Gebler, for which, between 1773 and 1780, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote incidental music, K. 345/336a, of an operatic character. It
King of Egypt other monarch to be styled "King of Egypt" was Fouad I's son Farouk I, whose title was changed to "King of Egypt and the Sudan" in October 1951 following the Wafdist government's unilateral abrogation of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936. The monarchy was abolished on 18 June 1953 following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 and the establishment of a republic. The then-king, the infant Fuad II of Egypt (Farouk having abdicated following the revolution), went into exile in Switzerland. The rulers of Ancient Egypt may be described using the title "King" (a translation of the Egyptian word "nsw") or "Pharaoh"