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Salammbô
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Salammbô

The title of two 19th-century operas written by different composers. The opera by Reyer (libretto by C duLocle, based on Flaubert's novel) was produced Brussels at the Théâtre de la Monnaie on 10 February 1890. The unfinished opera by Mussorgsky (libretto by composer, based on Flaubert) was partly composed in the 1860s and a concert performance of the available fragments was given in Milan on 10 November 1980.

The two operas have similar plots initially: Carthaginian princess Salammbô seduces Libyan warrior Mathô, to regain the sacred veil which he has stolen. After this, in Reyer's version, Salammbô commits suicide when ordered to kill Mathô, and he follows her. In Mussorgsky's version, Mathô is imprisoned and brutally killed; Salammbô is horror-stricken and dies.



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