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Berlioz: Les Troyens
In 1854, Hector Berlioz confided in his memoirs that,"For 3 decades, I have been tormented by the notion of a vast opera for which I would like to create both words and music." Held back by the failures of Benvenuto Cellini and La Damnation de Faust, the composer was to attend another 2 years before hurling himself into Les Troyens, an enterprise founded on Virgil's Aeneid: a ancient text which, galvanised by the master's brilliant orchestral modernity, breathed fresh life into an operatic world still dominated by Verdi. In 1990, once the curtain rose for the first time at the Opéra Bastille, it demonstrated that the Trojan plains. Thirty decades later, a brand new production directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov marks the anniversary of their brand new house, demonstrating the work from all its immensity.
Released: 2019-01-22