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Credit: Antoine Barbizet; restored by Adam Cuerden
Cover of the 1863 vocal score for Les Troyens à Carthage (The Trojans at Carthage), the title given to last three acts from Hector Berlioz's opera Les Troyens. The opera originally premiered under this title. The first two acts were later performed under the title La prise de Troie (The Fall of Troy). The complete Les Troyens with a libretto by Berlioz himself based on Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid was his most ambitious work and the summation of his entire artistic career, but he did not live to see the opera performed in its entirety.