Enée et Lavinie

Enée et Lavinie is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue by Fontenelle for which Colasse did the score. It had its premiere at the Palais-Royal on 7 November 1690, but it was not very successful at this time or on 14 February 1758, when Dauvergne wrote new music for Fontenelle’s text. The opera is based upon the legendary account of the marriage of Aeneas and Lavinia described in the seventh book of Vergil’s epic, but certain changes are made in the original story so that the dramatic…