''Cassandre'' (''Cassandra'') is an opera by the French composers
Toussaint Bertin de la Doué and
François Bouvard, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the
Paris Opera
The Paris Opera (, ) is the primary opera and ballet company of France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the , and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and officially renamed the , but continued to be ...
) on 18 February 1706.
According to the site CESAR
/ref> It takes the form of a '' tragédie en musique'' in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, is based on the '' Oresteia'' by Aeschylus.
References
Sources
Libretto at "Livrets baroques"
Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse ''Dictionnaire des Opéras'', Paris, 1881
page 141.
French-language operas
Tragédies en musique
Operas by Toussaint Bertin de la Doué
Operas by François Bouvard
Operas
1706 operas
Operas by multiple composers
Operas based on Agamemnon (Aeschylus play)
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