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

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 85 mn
Interval 45 mn
Second Part 80 mn
Interval 30 mn
Third part 45 mn
End

Les Troyens

Opera in five acts and nine parts (1863)

After Virgil’s Aeneid

Music :

Hector Berlioz

Libretto :

Hector Berlioz - D’après L’Énéide de Virgile

Conductor :

Philippe Jordan

Director :

Dmitri Tcherniakov

Set design :

Dmitri Tcherniakov

Costume design :

Elena Zaytseva

Lighting design :

Gleb Filshtinsky

Video :

Tieni Burkhalter

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 :

Brandon Jovanovich

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 :

Ekaterina Semenchuk

Anna :

Aude Extrémo

Ascagne :

Michèle Losier

Énée :

Brandon Jovanovich

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

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Gallery

Les Troyens 18.19 (c) Vincent Pontet - OnP (1)

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2/10 :

Les Troyens (saison 18/19)

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Les Troyens (saison 18/19)

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Les Troyens (saison 18/19) - Michèle Losier (Ascagne), Brandon Jovanovich (Énée), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Cassandre), Véronique Gens (Hécube), Stéphane Degout (Chorèbe)

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Les Troyens (saison 18/19)

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Les Troyens (saison 18/19)

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Les Troyens (saison 18/19) - Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Cassandre)

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Les Troyens (saison 18/19)

9/10 :

Les Troyens (saison 18/19) - Cyrille Dubois (Iopas), Christian Van Horn (Narbal), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Didon), Aude Extrémo (Anna)

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Les Troyens (saison 18/19)

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Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz (Stéphanie d'Oustrac)

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Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz (Ekaterina Semenchuk & Brandon Jovanovich)

3/5:

Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz (Stéphane Degout)

4/5:

Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz (Ekaterina Semenchuk)

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Lumière sur : Les coulisses des Troyens

Audio clips

Les Troyens (saison 18/19)- Acte V - Ekaterina Semenchuk et Aude Extrémo

Les Troyens (saison 18/19) - Acte IV - Christian Van Horn et Aude Extrémo

Les Troyens (saison 18/19) - Acte I - Stéphane Degout

Les Troyens (saison 18/19) - Acte IV - Ekaterina Semenchuk et Brandon Jovanovitch

Media coverage

An outstanding production of Berlioz’s opera
Financial Times, Shirley Apthorp, 28.01.19
Cette nouvelle production fera date.
Les Inrocks, Patrick Sourd, 06.02.19
Stéphanie d’Oustrac est une Cassandre inoubliable, à fleur de peau, révoltée, dont le chant intense est nourri aux sources du style français
Le Figaro, Christian Merlin, 31.01.2019

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About the work

What exactly is grand opera?

By Elise Petit
A History of Les Troyens

By Charles Alexandre Creton
Les Troyens

By Octave
A History of the Trojans

By Charles Alexandre Creton

Partners

With the support of the Cercle Berlioz

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Sponsor of the Paris Opera initiatives for young people and of the avant-premières

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Sponsor of the Paris Opera's audiovisual broadcasts

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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. This performance will be broadcast near-live on ARTE and ARTE Concert on January 31 at 10:45 pm, as part of Arte Opera's first European opera season.
Radiodiffusion sur France Musique ultérieurement.

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