Seattle Opera will present this January a concert rendering of Hector Berlioz's Les Troyens—an epic tale of fate, love, and betrayal that is as grand in scope as it is rarely performed. This special ...
Still, if ever an opera were going to work in the cavernous Royal Albert Hall then it would be Les Troyens. First, there are the sheer forces involved, with its huge orchestra requiring three harps, ...
“What joy!” were the first words the chorus sang when the curtain went up Sunday afternoon in the War Memorial Opera House on the first complete production of Hector Berlioz’s two-part “Les Troyens” ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Marcello Giordani struggled mightily, his top notes effortful and thin. It turned out the tenor’s third performance of Aeneas in the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Berlioz’s “Les ...
The first complete recording of Hector Berlioz's opera "Les Troyens," issued on five LPs in 1970, changed a lot of minds. In large part because of his early, enormously popular -- and decidedly ...