Berlioz: Les Troyens
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Release: 2003-10-26
·Runtime: 314m
·★ 10.0
Music
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.
Production Countries
France
Production Companies
Théâtre Musical de Paris - Châtelet
BBC
Opus Arte
Cast
Nicolas Testé
as Panthée
Stéphanie d'Oustrac
as Ascagne
Anna Caterina Antonacci
as Cassandra
Renata Pokupić
as Anna
Susan Graham
as Dido
Ludovic Tézier
as Chorèbe
Mark Padmore
as Iopas
John Eliot Gardiner
as Conductor
Gregory Kunde
as Aeneas
Topi Lehtipuu
as Hylas / Hélélenus
Laurent Naouri
as Narbal
