Berlioz: Les Troyens

Overview

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.

Directed by Yannis Kokkos, Peter Maniura

Top cast

Anna Caterina Antonacci

Cassandra

Gregory Kunde

Aeneas

Ludovic Tézier

Chorèbe

Laurent Naouri

Narbal

Renata Pokupić

Anna

Susan Graham

Dido

Nicolas Testé

Panthée

Mark Padmore

Iopas

Stéphanie d'Oustrac

Ascagne

Topi Lehtipuu

Hylas / Hélélenus

F

Fernand Bernadi

La Fantôme d'Hector

R

René Schirrer

Priam / Mercure

D

Danielle Bouthillon

Hécube

B

Benjamin Davies

Un Soldat

R

Robert Davies

Un Chef Grec

John Eliot Gardiner

Conductor

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