Les Horaces

Les Horaces
Tragédie lyrique by Antonio Salieri
Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David, exhibited at the Salon in Paris in 1785 (the year prior to the premiere of the opera in that city), depicts the titular Horatii.
LibrettistNicolas-François Guillard
LanguageFrench
Based onCorneille's Horace
Premiere
2 November 1786 (1786-11-02)[1]

Les Horaces (The Horatii) is an operatic tragédie lyrique by Antonio Salieri. The text was by Nicolas-François Guillard after Pierre Corneille's Horace.

The opera was commissioned by the Paris Opera after the success of Salieri's Les Danaïdes with the company.

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