Achille et Polixene Plot Summary

Achille et Polixene Performance History

• Title from title page: ACHILLE / ET / POLIXENE, / TRAGEDIE
• Genre: tragédie lyrique (Tragédie en musique)
• Siglum from Lully thematic catalog: LWV74
• Composers: Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1632-1687 (Overture and Act I) and Pascal Colasse, 1649-1709 (Prologue and Acts 2-5). Completed by Colasse after Lully's death on 22 March 1687.
• Librettist: Jean Galbert de Campistron
• Libretto based on: Virgil's Aeneid
• Setting: Ancient Troy
• Premiere: Paris, 7 November 1687 (Palais Royal)
• First published: Paris, Christophe Ballard, 1687
• Volume in the UNT Lully Collection: 1st ed. (Ballard 1687)

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