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Love and war; obedience and loyalty; fate and freedom. Berlioz's visionary Les Troyens is opera on an epic scale, and deals with some of mankind's profoundest questions in a work of exceptional power and sensual lyricism. From the Trojans' dutiful acceptance of the famous wooden horse into their beseiged city through to Enee's flight to Carthage and beyond, the opera presents an awe-inspiring vision of the ancient world, in music both monumental and intimate, glittering and solemn. Les Troyens shows Berlioz at the height of his dramatic powers, in a work whose scale and ambition approach those of Wagner's Ring cycle.

Creatives/Company

Music: Hector Berlioz
Lyrics: Hector Berlioz (after Virgil)

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Archive listings for Les Troyens (2014)

Work type: Opera or Operetta.

T282499006

Sung in French with English supertitles. Running time: 5hrs 30mins approx.Company Mariinsky Opera. Conductor Valery Gergiev. Director Yannis Kokkos. Performer Sergei Semishkur (Enee Aug 28 / 30). Performer Ekaterina Gubanova (Aug 28 / 30). Performer Mlada Khudolei (Cassandre Aug 29). Performer Ekaterina Semenchuk (Didon Aug 28 / 30). Performer Anna Markarova (Didon Aug 29). Performer Alexei Markov (Chorebe Aug 28 / 30). Performer Vladislav Sulimsky (Aug 29). Performer Mikhail Petrenko (Narbal Aug 28 / 30). Performer Yuri Vorobiev (Narbal Aug 29).

28 Aug 14 to 30 Aug 14

Festival Theatre, Edinburgh :: V600
listing details L50526992

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