Hécube

Hécube is an opera in three acts with music by Granges de Fontenelle and a libretto by Milcent. Not a very original work, it was mounted on 40 dates between its world premiere at the Opéra on 5 May 1800 and its final performance on 3 April 1808, when it returned only 740 francs to the box office. The opera opens in a public square decorated to welcome Achille and to honor Hector. Here Polixène reveals to Théone that she is uneasy over Achille and Hector being contestants in the same games…