Berlioz: Les Troyens
10.0 / 10
314 minutes
2003-10-26
French
FR
Actors :
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
Description
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.