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 March 22, 1687. The opera was first performed on November 7, 1687, by the Paris Opera at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.
Original Name | Achille et Polyxène |
Librettist | Jean Galbert de Campistron |
Date of composition | 1687 (completed by Pascal Collasse) |
Premiered | 1687, November 7th (Théâtre du Palais-Royal) in Paris, France |
First published | 1687 |
Type | Tragédie en musique (Musical Tragedy) |
Catalogue | LWV 74 |
Spoken language | French |
Instruments |
Voice (Haute-contre)
- Achille
Orchestra Voice (Bass) - Agamemnon Voice (Bass) - Priam Voice (Soprano) - Andromaque Voice (Soprano) - Polixène Voice (Soprano) - Briséis |
Autotranslations beta |
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Achilles and Polyxena, LWV 74 Jean-Baptiste Lully: Achilles and Polyxena, LWV 74 Jean-Baptiste Lully: Achilles and Polyxena, LWV 74 |