This year is huge for the Opéra National de Paris. It celebrates the 350^th anniversary of the founding of Académie Royale de Musique in 1669, the thirtieth anniversary of the inauguration of the Opéra Bastille in 1989, and the 150^th anniversary of the death of Hector Berlioz. Les Troyens (The Trojans) opened the 1990 season at the Bastille, so it was fitting that a new production, directed and designed by Dmitri Tcherniakov under the baton of Philippe Jordan, launched the 2019 one.