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In 1854, Hector Berlioz confided in his memoirs that, “For three years, I have been tormented by the idea of a vast opera for which I would like to write both words and music.” Held back by the failures of Benvenuto Cellini and La Damnation de Faust, the composer was to wait another two years before throwing himself into Les Troyens, an enterprise based on Virgil’s Aeneid: an ancient text that, galvanised by the master’s brilliant orchestral modernity, breathed new life into an operatic world still dominated by Verdi. In 1990, when the curtain rose for the first time at the Opéra Bastille, it revealed the Trojan plains. Thirty years later, a new production directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov marks the anniversary of the opera house, revealing the work in all its immensity.
La Prise de Troie Cassandre : Stéphanie d’Oustrac Ascagne : Michèle Losier Hécube : Véronique Gens Enée : Brandon Jovanovich Chorèbe : Stéphane Degout Les Troyens à Carthage Didon : Ekaterina Semenchuk Anna : Aude Extrémo Ascagne : Michèle Losier Enée : Brandon Jovanovich Lopas : Cyrille Dubois Paris Orchestra and Chorus Chorus master : José Luis Basso
Conductor : Philippe Jordan Stage direction : Dmitri Tcherniakov Set design : Dmitri Tcherniakov Costume design : Elena Zaytseva Lighting design : Gleb Filshtinsky Video : Tieni Burkhalter
French
English
Production compagny : Bel Air Media
Coproduction compagny : Opera national de Paris
Running Time : 213'
Production Year : 2019
Distribution compagny : Telmondis Distribution