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Berlioz: Les Troyens

10.0 314 mins Music   2003
Théâtre Musical de Paris - Châtelet   BBC   Opus Arte  
Director(s): Yannis Kokkos Peter Maniura

This epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten years of the Trojan War. Cassandra tries to warn of the terrible fate to come, but fate is set and Troy falls. The first two acts cover this tragic end, then the flight of survivors to Carthage and events at Carthage continue in acts 3 - 5, culminating in the further voyage for Italy and Rome. This is Virgil's classic epic, in operatic form, in about a three and a half hour performance from French Opera.

Casts of Berlioz: Les Troyens

Gregory Kunde

as Aeneas

Ludovic Tézier

as Chorèbe

Laurent Naouri

as Narbal

Susan Graham

as Dido

Nicolas Testé

as Panthée

Mark Padmore

as Iopas

Topi Lehtipuu

as Hylas / Hélélenus

Fernand Bernadi

as La Fantôme d'Hector

René Schirrer

as Priam / Mercure

Danielle Bouthillon

as Hécube

Benjamin Davies

as Un Soldat

Robert Davies

as Un Chef Grec

John Eliot Gardiner

as Conductor

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