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. | |
| Librettist | Nicolas-François Guillard |
| Language | French |
| Based on | Corneille's Horace |
| Premiere | |
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.