Lyric Opera S Big Long First Ever Les Troyens Delivers On An Epic Score

       Hector Berlioz died in 1869 without ever seeing a full production of the  project dearest to his heart—his grand opera, Les Troyens, which he had completed in 1858.    

        Part one deals with the infamous Trojan horse attack by the Greeks, agonizingly foreseen by Cassandre and unwittingly facilitated by Aeneas.    Part two finds Aeneas and his soldiers in Carthage, where he falls in love with the widowed Dido, but abandons her because he’s destined to travel to Italy and found Rome. Both Cassandre and Dido become so distraught they kill themselves.