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Les Troyens

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In Hector Berlioz: Mature career of Hector Berlioz
…I: the massive two-part drama Les Troyens (1855–58), based on Virgil’s story of Dido and Aeneas, and the short, witty comedy Béatrice et Bénédict, written between 1860 and 1862 and based on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. For all these Berlioz wrote his own librettos. He also wrote a Te…
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French grand opera

In opera: French grand opera
…monumental work for the stage, Les Troyens (“The Trojans”; his own libretto based on Virgil’s Aeneid), adopted the form of grand opera but also drew from older French operas by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and Christoph Willibald Gluck, particularly in its faithful adherence to the text. Like Meyerbeer’s Huguenots, it…
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