Event listing: Les Troyens | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Event is in the past

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Royal Opera House, Covent GardenBow Street, Covent Garden, London, Greater London, WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom

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Performers

The Royal Opera
Sir Antonio Pappano	Conductor
Sir David McVicar	Director
Es Devlin	Set Designer		2012 Jun 25
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Anna Caterina Antonacci	Soprano	Cassandre
Barbara Senator	Mezzo-soprano	Ascagne
Bryan Hymel	Tenor	Énée
Fabio Capitanucci	Baritone	Chorèbe
Ashley Holland	Baritone	Panthée
Eva-Maria Westbroek	Soprano	Didon
Brindley Sherratt	Bass	Narbal

Reviews of Les Troyens (The Trojans) directed by Sir David McVicar

*****

Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, October 2018

***11

War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, June 2015

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Berlioz 150: Les Troyens and Benvenuto Cellini

Mark Pullinger, 19th February

The conductor and period instrument pioneer reflects on two of Berlioz' great operas.

John Nelson on an epic operatic undertaking

Mark Pullinger, 29th November

There’s nobody on the planet who’s conducted Berlioz’s epic opera The Trojans more than John Nelson.

Berlioz's magnum opus Les Troyens at Covent Garden

David Karlin, 25th June

It's one of the most famous, most studied, most archetypal passages in epic poetry: in Book I of Virgil's Aeneid, the Trojans, exhausted from their voyage and desolate at the loss of their city, gaze down on the city of Carthage as it rises from the African soil, its people scurrying like worker bees in their manifold tasks.

***11