Camille, reine des Volsques

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Camille, reine des Volsques (Camilla, Queen of the Volsci) is a French opera by André Campra. It premiered at the Paris Opera on 9 November 1717. The work is a tragédie en musique with a prologue and five acts. The libretto by Antoine Danchet, based on Virgil's Aeneid, tells the story of Camilla, queen of the Volsci. Motifs from this opera inspired La Guirlande de Campra (1952), a collaboration by Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre of Les Six, plus Daniel Lesur, Alexis Roland-Manuel and Henri Sauguet. La Guirlande de Campra was later used for a 1966 ballet by John Taras.