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Les Troyens
| Les Troyens | |
|---|---|
| Grand opera by Hector Berlioz | |
 Cover of the Choudens edition of the vocal score | |
| Librettist | Berlioz |
| Language | French |
| Based on | The Aeneid by Virgil |
| Premiere | 4 November 1863 (last three acts) Théâtre de la Ville, Paris |
Les Troyens (pronounced [le tʁwajɛ̃]; in English: The Trojans) is a French grand opera in five acts, running for about five hours,[1] by Hector Berlioz.[2] The libretto was written by Berlioz himself from Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid; the score was composed between 1856 and 1858. Les Troyens is Berlioz's most ambitious work, the summation of his entire artistic career, but he did not live to see it performed in its entirety. Under the title Les Troyens à Carthage, the last three acts were premièred with many cuts by Léon Carvalho's company, the Théâtre Lyrique, at their theatre (now the Théâtre de la Ville) on the Place du Châtelet in Paris on 4 November 1863, with 21 repeat performances. The reduced versions run for about three hours. After decades of neglect, today the opera is considered by some music critics as one of the finest ever written.
- ^ "Hector Berlioz "Les Troyens" (grand opera in 5 acts)". BalletAndOpera.com. 3 March 2020. Archived from the original on 11 December 2023.
- ^ Berlioz 2003.
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