Les Troyens - Opera - Season 18/19 Programming

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Les troyens

Opéra Bastille - from 22 January to 12 February 2019

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Les troyens

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Opera Hector Berlioz

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Opéra Bastille - from 22 January to 12 February 2019

5h10 with 2 intervals

Pre-opening night : 22 January 2019
Opening night : 25 January 2019

Les Troyens

Opera in five acts and nine parts (1863)

After Virgil’s Aeneid

Music :

Hector Berlioz

Libretto :

Hector Berlioz

Conductor :

Philippe Jordan

Director :

Dmitri Tcherniakov

Set design :

Dmitri Tcherniakov

Costume design :

Elena Zaytseva

Lighting design :

Gleb Filshtinsky

Chorus master :

José Luis Basso
Orchestre and Chœurs de l’Opéra national de Paris

In french
French and English surtitles
La Prise de Troie

Cassandre :

Stéphanie d'Oustrac

Ascagne :

Michèle Losier

Hécube :

Véronique Gens

Énée :

Bryan Hymel

Chorèbe :

Stéphane Degout

Panthée :

Christian Helmer

Le Fantôme d'Hector :

Thomas Dear

Priam :

Paata Burchuladze

Un Capitaine Grec :

Jean-Luc Ballestra

Hellenus :

Jean-François Marras

Polyxène :

Sophie Claisse
Les Troyens à Carthage

Didon :

Elīna Garanča

Anna :

Aude Extrémo

Ascagne :

Michèle Losier

Énée :

Bryan Hymel

Iopas :

Cyrille Dubois

Hylas :

Bror Magnus Tødenes

Narbal :

Christian Van Horn

Deux Capitaines troyens :

Jean-Luc Ballestra

Tomislav Lavoie

Le Fantôme de Cassandre :

Stéphanie d'Oustrac

Le Fantôme de Chorèbe :

Stéphane Degout

Le Fantôme d'Hector :

Thomas Dear

Le Fantôme de Priam :

Paata Burchuladze

Mercure :

Bernard Arrieta

About

In few words:

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.

Opening
First Part 90 mn
Interval 45 mn
Second Part 85 mn
Interval 30 mn
Third part 60 mn
End

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Beyond the experience

Ce spectacle fait l’objet d’une captation réalisée par Andy Sommer, coproduite par l’Opéra national de Paris, BelAir Média et Arte, avec le soutien du CNC et de la Fondation Orange, mécène des retransmissions audiovisuelles de l’Opéra national de Paris. Ce spectacle sera retransmis en direct sur Arte Concert le 31 janvier 2019 à 18h et ultérieurement sur Arte.
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