Cassandra (Cassandre) (Berlioz: Les Troyens). Mezzo-Soprano. Daughter of the Trojan King Priam, she foretells the destruction of Troy. Rather than risk capture by the Greeks, she urges the Trojan women to join her in mass suicide. She stabs herself. Aria: Malheureux Roi! (‘Unhappy King!’). Created (1890) by Luise Reuss-Belce.




