Les Troyens

...interest. She admired and encouraged Hector Berlioz, as is clear from their extensive correspondence. Berlioz dedicated ''Les Troyens to Princess Carolyne. She was devastated by Liszt's death and survived him only a very few months.

In this article: Franz Liszt, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Roman Catholic, Hector Berlioz, and Rome

...other cities in Europe. His repertoire includes Fenton in Verdi's Falstaff and Hellenus in Berlioz's Les Troyens, both of which he recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sir Colin Davis. He has also played Ottavio...

In this article: Bulent Bezduz, France, Luciano Pavarotti, La boheme, La traviata, Maria Stuarda, Falstaff, Leicester, and Europe

...Mark Morris Dance Group. The 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...

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

...for almost two decades. During his tenure at the Met, Merrill staged several Met premieres including, Strauss 's Die Frau ohne Schatten (1966), Berlioz 's Les Troyens (1973) and Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess (1985). Many of his stagings...

In this article: Opera Company of Philadelphia, Salzburg Festival, Central City Opera, Giacomo Puccini, Opera Colorado, Glyndebourne Festival, and Arena di Verona Festival

...and events into epic subjects for his operas and music dramas. Hector Berlioz, too, wrote the libretti for two of his best-known works, La Damnation de Faust and Les Troyens. Alban Berg adapted Georg Buchner's play Woyzeck for the libretto...

In this article: Giuseppe Verdi, La figlia di Iorio, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Eugene Scribe, Pietro Mascagni, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Lorenzo Da Ponte, and Richard Wagner

...found its unconventional rhythms impossible to play. Twenty years later, Berlioz began writing his operatic masterpiece ''Les Troyens with himself rather than audiences of the day in mind. Les Troyens was to be the culmination of the French...

In this article: Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Hector Berlioz, Christoph Willibald von Gluck, Paris, Claude Debussy, Richard Wagner, Francis Poulenc, and Giacomo Meyerbeer

...the United States. In 1972, Norman debuted at La Scala, where she sang the title role in Verdi's Aida and at London's Royal Opera at Covent Garden, where she sang the role of Cassandra in Hector Berlioz's Les Troyens. Norman appeared as...

In this article: Jessye Norman, Carnegie Hall, Augusta, Aida, New York City, United States, Salzburg Festival, Cassandra, Berlin Philharmonic, and New York Philharmonic

...as the Music Director of the Paris Opera . He opened the inaugural season at the new Opera Bastille with Berlioz's complete Les Troyens and received highly praised reviews from the music circle. In 1991, the Association of French Theatres...

In this article: Myung-whun Chung, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Hector Berlioz, Olivier Messiaen, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Legion d'honneur, Turangalila Symphony, Music Critics, and Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

...the Theater der Stadt, Baden-Baden on August 9, 1862. Berlioz completed the score to the work between the completion and production of his magnum opus, the monumental opera Les Troyens. Shortly after its successful premiere in Baden, Berlioz...

In this article: Beatrice et Benedict, Hector Berlioz, Messina, and Much Ado About Nothing