Les Troyens

About the show

As Troy celebrates the apparent end of the Greek siege, Cassandra foresees the city’s destruction, but the Trojans bring the wooden horse inside their walls. The Greeks emerge and sack Troy. Cassandra and the Trojan women choose death rather than capture, while Aeneas escapes with survivors. In Carthage, Queen Dido welcomes the Trojans and falls in love with Aeneas after they help defend the city. The gods summon Aeneas to found a new Troy in Italy, and he sails away. Dido, abandoned, takes her own life on a funeral pyre and foretells Carthage’s destruction and Rome’s rise.