Berlioz: Les Troyens
2003-10-26| 314 min
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.
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Cast
Anna Caterina Antonacci
Gregory Kunde
Ludovic Tézier
Laurent Naouri
Renata Pokupić
Susan Graham
Nicolas Testé
Mark Padmore
Stéphanie d'Oustrac
Topi Lehtipuu
Fernand Bernadi
René Schirrer
Danielle Bouthillon
Benjamin Davies
Robert Davies
John Eliot Gardiner
