World premiere recording! With a first-rate cast, this new production from Alpha brings to light a major work of the French operatic heritage. Pyrrhus by Pancrace Royer (also noted for his very fine - and virtuosic - harpsichord music) was first performed early in the reign of Louis XV. Features the twenty-one tragedies lyriques on the subject of the Trojan War that were performed at the Academie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) between 1687 and 1730.