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Achille et Polyxène
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.
dispute with La Maupin.
Roles created.
- 1682: The title role in "Persée" by Lully
- 1684: The title role in "Amadis" by Lully
- 1686: Renaud in "Armide" by Lully
- 1686; Acis in "Acis et Galatée" by Lully
- 1687: Achille in "Achille et Polyxène" by Lully and Collasse
- 1689: Pélée in "Thétis et Pélée" by Collasse
- 1690: Énée in "Énée et Lavinie" by Collasse