Énée et Lavinie (Collasse)

Énée et Lavinie (Aeneas and Lavinia) is an opera by the French composer Pascal Collasse, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opéra) on 7 November 1690.

The libretto, by Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, is based on the later books of Virgil's Aeneid.

The King of Latium wants to marry his daughter Lavinia to Aeneas, but the Trojan has a rival in the local prince Turnus, who is favoured by the queen and the goddess Juno.

The king consults the oracle of his father, the god Faunus, who says that Lavinia must choose her husband for herself and then there will be peace.

Aeneas reproaches her for her choice and tells her he only abandoned Dido because the god Jupiter told him to.