Les Troyens
Les Troyens is an opera by Hector Berlioz. Berlioz wrote the words and music between 1856 and 1858. The opera is based on Virgil's Aeneid. It took many years for the opera to be performed. It was very long. Berlioz cut the opera to the last three acts. They were performed in Paris in November 1863.
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- Hector Berlioz, Les Troyens à Carthage vocal score cover - Restoration.jpg
Cover of the 1863 Choudens vocal score for Les Troyens à Carthage, the second half of the opera, and first part performed.
- Hector Berlioz, La Prise de Troie score cover - Restoration.jpg
The Choudens vocal score illustration for La Prise de Troie, the first part of the opera.
- Les Troyens- Programme de la création rouennaise 1920.jpg
Poster for 1920 performances of Berlioz's Les Troyens in Rouen, France
- The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.jpg
Detail from The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy by Domenico Tiepolo (1773).
Set design for the throne room (1863)
- Les Troyens à Carthage 1863 - gardens of Didon by the shore - design by Chaperon - Gallica.jpg
Gardens of Didon by the shore (1863)
- Énée et Didon by Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1815).png
Énée et Didon by Guérin (1815).
- Les Troyens à Carthage 1863 - apartment of Didon - Chaperon - Gallica.jpg
Stage design for the apartment of Didon for the premiere of Berlioz's Les Troyens à Carthage (Act 3) at the Théâtre Lyrique on 4 November 1863.
- Les Troyens à Carthage 1863 - last act (press illustration) - Gallica.jpg
Press illustration of the last scene – the Death of Didon (1863). Set designer: Philippe Chaperon
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