MUSIC

Bastille Opera’s Baptism by Fire: Saturday’s debut, a six-hour performance of Hector Berlioz’s “Les Troyens” at the Bastille Opera, Paris’ new $400-million glass-and-steel, ocean-liner-shaped opera house, was declared a triumphant success by Le Journal du Dimanche, France’s Sunday newspaper. “A triumph . . . not one glitch,” the newspaper declared. President Francois Mitterrand directed that the new 2,700-seat house was made “modern and popular” so opera would be more accessible to the masses. Opening-night tickets cost between $6.50 and $60--half the price at the old Palais Garnier.