Les Troyens

...severed work at various times between 1899 and 1919, the company did not produce the complete Les Troyens, in one evening as Berlioz had conceived it, until 10 June 1921, with mise-en-scene by Merle-Forest, sets by Rene Piot and...

In this article: Hector Berlioz, Didon, Troy, Carthage, Paris, Thomas Beecham, and Italy

...Cosi fan tutte at the Glyndebourne Festival (2006). He has also appeared in Handel's Ariodante (Paris Opera ) and as Hylas in Berlioz' Les Troyens (conducted by John Eliot Gardiner). He has worked with other well-known conductors, such as...

In this article: Glyndebourne Festival, Cosi fan tutte, Albert Herring, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Ariodante, Sibelius Academy, Simon Rattle, and William Christie

...was first published in 1852. This became the core of the oratorio L'enfance du Christ. Les Troyens a Carthage: Prologue () Berlioz's epic opera Les Troyens was never performed complete during his lifetime. In an attempt to have the opera...

In this article: Hector Berlioz, Le Corsaire, Paris Conservatoire, Carthage, Egypt, Prix de Rome, King Lear, and The Corsair

...by Aristophanes, 1975; ''The Oresteia by Aeschylus, 1976), La Scala in Milan (Die Walkure by Wagner , 1974; Don Carlos by Verdi , 1978; Les Troyens by Berlioz , 1980, with Dunja Vejzovic as Didon), the Vienna State Opera (Il viaggio a Reims...

In this article: Rossini Festival, Oresteia, The Birds, The Bacchae, Il viaggio a Reims, Don Carlos, and Die Walkure

...which is never finished. Georges Bizet's opera, Les pecheurs de perles debuts at the Theatre Lyrique in Paris (September 30) Les Troyens, opera by Hector Berlioz, debuts, also at the Theatre Lyrique (November 4) Jules Massenet wins...

In this article: Theatre Lyrique, Prix de Rome, When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again, Salammbo, Les pecheurs de perles, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, and Modest Mussorgsky

...of Wagner's "Parsifal" on June 6 and June 12. A top operatic event is the premiere of the concert version of Berlioz's titanic work "Les Troyens," that plays on two evenings, on June 23 and 24. The Mariinsky promises a full stage version to...

In this article: Leonidas Kavakos, Valery Gergiev, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Rodion Shchedrin, Henri Dutilleux, Salzburg Festival, and The St. Petersburg Times

August 2007 Levine and orchestra embark on their first joint European tour. April-May 2008 Performances of Berlioz's epic opera "Les Troyens" end the Symphony Hall season. July 6, 2008 July 20-24, 2008 Tanglewood Music Center...

In this article: James Levine, Mahler's Symphony No. 8, Milton Babbitt, Orchestration, Symphony No. 35, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Symphony No. 6, Das Lied von der Erde, and Surgery

...Boston Symphony's season at the Lenox, Mass., music center opens with Levine conducting a concert performance of Berlioz' monumental opera "Les Troyens" in two parts, July 5 and July 6. It closes Aug. 24 with Christoph von Dohnanyi conducting...

In this article: Renee Fleming, Norma, Tanglewood, James Levine, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Eugene Onegin, Christoph von Dohnanyi, and Hector Berlioz

The production of 'Les Troyens' at Stuttgart's Staatsoper, which runs through Nov. 25, shows why the city is still the epicenter of operatic director's theater. Published: November 6, 2007 STUTTGART: In Part 1 of Berlioz's monumental...

In this article: Hector Berlioz, Stuttgart, Cassandra, Aeneas, and Manfred Honeck

...(she made recordings of several Handel oratorios and a memorable disc of Bach cantatas), romantic operas such as "Carmen" and "Les Troyens," and contemporary music by her husband and John Harbison, among others (she created the role of...

In this article: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Peter Lieberson, Washington, Carmen, John Harbison, Julianne Baird, and Transcendence