Antonio Salieri: Les Danaïdes

Antonio Salieri composed three French operas for France. Les Danaïdes was one of the most famous operas in Paris during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was praised by numerous individuals, including Hector Berlioz, who mentioned that this was one of the musical works that made him abandon medicine in favour of music. This French tragedie lyirique premiered at the Académie Royale de Musique (Paris Opéra) in 1784 to instant success. Its violent libretto, based on the Greek myth of the Danaids, t