sentences:  A lyricism associated with Niccolò Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini, who also composed for Paris, can also be heard in "Les Danaïdes".The opera was first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (Paris Opéra) on 26 April 1784 and was, at the time, so great a success that the theatre commissioned two more works from Salieri.It was subsequently staged by the Paris Opéra over 120 times up to the 1820s, and in the rest of Europe, as well, in no less than four different editions, some of which reduced to four acts instead of the five ones usual at the Opéra, and translated into different languages such as German.