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Troyens, Les| Opera by Berlioz in two parts (libretto by composer, after Virgil): |
| La Prise de Troie/The Taking of Troy was produced in Karlsruhe (in German) on 6 December 1890. In the story, Cassandra's warnings are ignored as the departing Greeks leave their wooden horse. Warned by the ghost of Hector, Aeneas escapes the massacre of the Trojans. |
| Les Troyens à Carthage was produced at the Théâtre-Lyrique, Paris, on 4 November 1863, and later at Karlsruhe (in German) on 7 December 1890 (the first performance of the complete work). In the plot of this second part, Aeneas and Dido, Queen of Carthage, fall in love but he must depart for Italy to found Rome, and as he leaves Dido mounts her funeral pyre. The first performance of the complete work in French was at Brussels on 26 and 27 December 1906. |
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