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Work: Les Troyens (The Trojans)

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ComposerBerlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
PeriodRomantic
Year1858
Work typeOpera / Oratorio
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A triumph against the odds: Les Troyens at the BBC Proms

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Dinis Sousa doesn't put a foot wrong as the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and Monteverdi Choir give a performance of startling virtuosity at the end of a European tour. 
*****
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Carthage carnage: Tcherniakov's Trojans flops at the Bastille

Tcherniakov reduces Berlioz' epic to little more than Circle Time therapy, a poor way to mark the composer's anniversary year.
**111
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Hector Berlioz' Les Troyens conquer Vienna

An epic night at the opera with Joyce DiDonato, which will be hard to forget.
*****
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ParisLes Troyens

Opéra de Paris
Berlioz: Les Troyens (The Trojans)
Philippe Jordan; Dmitri Tcherniakov; Opéra national de Paris; Elena Zaytseva; Gleb Filshtinsky; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
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Berlioz 150: Michael Spyres on the tenor roles

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Michael Spyres explores the history behind Berlioz' great tenor roles and recounts his experiences performing Faust, Benvenuto Cellini and Énée. 

Berlioz 150: Les Troyens and Benvenuto Cellini

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