Cassandre

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) on 18 February 1706. 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)