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Aeneas is also a titular character in Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas ( c. 1688 ), and one of the principal roles in Hector Berlioz ' opera Les Troyens ( c. 1857 ).
Berlioz's epic masterpiece Les Troyens, the culmination of the Gluckian tradition, was not given a full performance for almost a hundred years.
Some of the others include Troades by Euripides, Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, Iphigenia and Polyxena by Samuel Coster, Palamedes by Joost van den Vondel and Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz.
Hector Berlioz, too, wrote the libretti for two of his best-known works, La Damnation de Faust and Les Troyens.
) It was a success both at home and abroad, unlike later great vocal works such as La damnation de Faust and Les Troyens, which were commercial failures.
This work would eventually become Les Troyens, a monumental grand opera with a libretto ( which he wrote himself ) based on Books Two and Four of Virgil's Aeneid.
Les Troyens proved to be a very personal work for Berlioz, as it paid homage to his first literary love, whom he still cherished even after his discoveries of Shakespeare and Goethe.
As for Les Troyens, in 1860 the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris had agreed to stage it, only to reject it the following year.
Les Troyens was dropped by the Paris Opéra with the excuse that it was too expensive to stage ; it was replaced by Wagner's Tannhäuser.
The staging of Les Troyens was fraught with difficulties when performed in a truncated form at the Théâtre-Lyrique.
One of the pivotal events in this fresh ignition of interest in the composer was a performance of Les Troyens by Rafael Kubelík in 1957 at Covent Garden.
Davis's recording of Les Troyens was the first near-complete recording of that work.
Les Troyens was the first opera performed at the newly built Opéra Bastille in Paris on 17 March 1990 in a production claimed to be complete, but lacking the ballets.
For his magnum opus, the monumental opera Les Troyens, Berlioz turned to Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid.
Later came The Tempest, King Lear, a funeral march for the final scene in Hamlet, the love scene for Les Troyens ( which, some claim, Berlioz took from The Merchant of Venice ), and Béatrice and Benedict.
* Les Troyens ( The Trojans ), an opera by Hector Berlioz
This company had staged the first performances of Gounod's Faust and his Roméo et Juliette, and of a shortened version of Berlioz's Les Troyens.
* Enée, Les Troyens ( Berlioz )
* Chorèbe, Les Troyens
* 1860: Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz
Gluck's greatest French admirer would be Hector Berlioz, whose epic Les Troyens may be seen as the culmination of the Gluckian tradition.
** James Mallinson ( producer ), Simon Rhodes ( engineer ), Colin Davis ( conductor ), Michelle DeYoung, Ben Heppner, Petra Lang, Peter Mattei, Stephen Milling, Sara Mingardo, Kenneth Tarver & the London Symphony Orchestra for Berlioz: Les Troyens
** James Mallinson ( producer ), Simon Rhodes ( engineer ), Colin Davis ( conductor ), Michelle DeYoung, Ben Heppner, Petra Lang, Peter Mattei, Stephen Milling, Sara Mingardo, Kenneth Tarver & the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Berlioz: Les Troyens
Many of the performances, including Les Troyens, were recorded for the orchestra's new CD label, LSO Live, launched in 2000.
Les Troyens won two Grammy awards.

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During the post-World War I period ski-lifts were built in Swiss and Austrian towns to accommodate winter visitors, but summer tourism continued to be important ; by the mid-20th century the popularity of downhill skiing increased greatly as it became more accessible and in the 1970s several new villages were built in France devoted almost exclusively to skiing, such a Les Menuires.
These authors, the former a medieval historian and the latter an early modernist, quickly became associated with the distinctive Annales approach, which combined geography, history, and the sociological approaches of the Année Sociologique ( many members of which were their colleagues at Strasbourg ) to produce an approach which rejected the predominant emphasis on politics, diplomacy and war of many 19th and early 20th-century historians as spearheaded by historians whom Febvre called Les Sorbonnistes.
His own ideas, especially those expressed in his masterworks, French Rural History ( Les caractères originaux de l ' histoire rurale française, 1931 ) and Feudal Society, were incorporated by the second-generation Annalistes, led by Fernand Braudel.
Bloch's Les Rois Thaumaturges ( 1924 ) looked at the long-standing folk belief that the king could cure scrofula by touch.
The manuscript, which is being edited for publication by G. Maltsiniotis, later led to another of his monumental works, Les Dérivateurs.
Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.
The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.
Les Danaïdes was received with great acclaim and its popularity with audiences and critics alike produced several further requests for new works for Paris audiences by Salieri.
:* Les funérailles du général Marceau ( General Marceau's burial ), by P. H. Lamaire ( SOUTH façade, right ),
Many poems and plays, and two operas ( Les Abencérages, by Luigi Cherubini, and L ' esule di Granata, by Giacomo Meyerbeer ) mention the legend, but the whole story is doubtful, because the best historians do not mention it.
Bauxite was named after the village Les Baux in southern France, where it was first recognised as containing aluminium and named by the French geologist Pierre Berthier in 1821.
It was produced by Charles / Burrows / Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles.
Les Reed replaced Dowie as manager, however he too failed to improve Charlton's position in the league table and on Christmas Eve 2006, Reed was replaced by former player Alan Pardew.
Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes, Les Paul, and ( Mother ) Maybelle Carter brought him admirers within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally.
In 1978 when the film premiered, Werner Herzog cooked and publicly ate his shoe, an event later incorporated into a short documentary by Les Blank.
** Les Tragiques by Agrippa D ' Aubigné ( 1616 )
* Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse by Les Murray
Edited by Philip Thody ( interviev with Jeanie Delpech, in Les Nouvelles litteraires, November 15, 1945 ).
* " Les structures européennes: Principales caractéristiques et Intérêts pour les entreprises " ( the european corporate entities: main characteristics and interests for enterprises ) by Catherine Cathiard and Arnaud Lecourt, DROIT DES SOCIÉTÉS-REVUE MENSUELLE LEXISNEXIS JURISCLASSEUR-AOÛT-SEPTEMBRE 2011 ( French )
In France, there was Lettres persanes ( 1721 ) by Montesquieu, followed by Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse ( 1761 ) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Laclos ' Les Liaisons dangereuses ( 1782 ), which used the epistolary form to great dramatic effect, because the sequence of events was not always related directly or explicitly.

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