Achille et Polyxène
Opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Pascal Collasse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Achille et Polyxène (Achilles and Polyxena) is a tragédie lyrique containing a prologue and five acts based on Virgil's Aeneid with a French libretto by Jean Galbert de Campistron. The opera's overture and first act were composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully, who died from a conducting injury before he could complete the score. The prologue and the remaining acts are the work of his pupil Pascal Collasse who finished the work, eight months after Lully's death on 22 March 1687. Acts 1 and 4 of the ballet was created by Louis Lestang, and the ballet to the prologue and acts 2 and 3 were by Louis-Guillaume Pécour.[1] The opera was first performed on 7 November 1687, by the Paris Opera at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.
Achille et Polyxène | |
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Unfinished opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully completed by Pascal Collasse | |
Librettist | Jean Galbert de Campistron |
Language | French |
Based on | Virgil's Aeneid |
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