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    Les Troyens (pronounced [le tʁwajɛ̃]; in English: The Trojans) is a French grand opera in five acts, running for about five hours, by Hector Berlioz....
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    to the opera of the same name, composed in 1862. Berlioz's epic opera Les Troyens was never performed complete during his lifetime. In an attempt to have...
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  • This is a partial discography of Hector Berlioz's opera, Les Troyens. Its first performance on 4 November 1863 consisted of Acts 3 to 5 only. The first...
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    Hector Berlioz (category Pupils of Jean-François Le Sueur)
    Requiem and L'Enfance du Christ, his three operas Benvenuto Cellini, Les Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict, and works of hybrid genres such as the "dramatic...
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    Grammophon DVD: Met's Les Troyens (October 8, 1983). OCLC 951020281. "Les Troyens" (October 8, 1983), Met Opera on Demand. Les Troyens (October 12, 1983)...
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  • Quichotte, La favorite, Dom Sébastien, Charles VI, Mignon, Samson et Dalila, Les Troyens, and Werther, as well as Carmen. Typical roles for mezzo-sopranos include...
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    Les Troyens, OSM) 1995 – Prix Juno – Best classical recording of the year (Berlioz Les Troyens, OSM) 1995 – Grammy: Best Opera Recording (Berlioz Les...
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  • (1955–58). In 1957, he conducted and recorded the World premiere Berlioz's Les Troyens. From 1961 to 1979, he was music director of the Bavarian Radio Symphony...
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    her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1973 as Andromache in Berlioz's opera Les Troyens, the work's first staging in New York City. Montealegre made her final...
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    valve pattern. The Trojan March (Marche Troyenne) of the Berlioz opera Les Troyens (1856–58) features an on-stage band which includes a family of saxhorns...
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  • Berlioz's Les Troyens (title role of Énée), Requiem, the song cycle Les nuits d'été, La damnation de Faust, Rossini's Otello, Guillaume Tell and Le siège...
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    Western classical composition to feature a goblet drum is the opera Les Troyens (1856–1858) by the French composer Hector Berlioz, which calls for a...
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    French (Don José in Carmen; Samson in Samson and Delilah; Énée in Les Troyens; Hoffmann in Les Contes d'Hoffmann); and German (Lohengrin, Parsifal, and Siegmund...
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    In TV series Helen of Troy - played by John Rhys-Davies. In theater Les Troyens in which King Priam plays a minor role. King Priam. Ancient Greece portal...
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    Opéra de Lille, conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm, and Ascanius in Berlioz's Les Troyens with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and at the Tanglewood Music Festival...
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    composed the score of Béatrice et Bénédict following the completion of Les Troyens in 1858. It was first performed at the opening of the Theater Baden-Baden...
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    clear from their extensive correspondence, and Berlioz dedicated his Les Troyens to her. Karolina Elżbieta Iwanowska was born at her maternal grandfather's...
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    famous portrayal as Dido, the tragic heroine of Berlioz's magnum opus, Les Troyens. As a concert performer, Baker was noted for her interpretations of the...
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  • to Scotland, he organised the first British performance of Berlioz's Les Troyens and was a founding member of the Glasgow Citizen's Theatre, together...
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  • success. Roles: Ariadne, Ariadne auf Naxos (Richard Strauss) Cassandre, Les Troyens (Hector Berlioz) La Gioconda, La Gioconda (Amilcare Ponchielli) Leonore...
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    at the Paris Opéra on 11 January 1763 Polyxena is also a character in Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz. She is mentioned by William Shakespeare in Troilus...
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    Hector Berlioz struggled to gain a hearing. Berlioz's epic masterpiece Les Troyens, the culmination of the Gluckian tradition, was not given a full performance...
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    Les francs-juges (1826–33; unperformed – survives in fragments) Benvenuto Cellini (1834–38) La Nonne sanglante [fr] (1841–47; unfinished) Les Troyens...
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  • city of Troy Trojan language, the language of the historical Trojans Les Troyens ('The Trojans'), an opera by Berlioz, premiered part 1863, part 1890...
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  • similar material a few years back when she sang Cassandre in Berlioz's Les Troyens at the Met." The France-Amérique noted that Voigt and the chorus received...
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    Adalgisa (Norma), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) Berlioz: Cassandre (Les Troyens), Marguerite (La damnation de Faust), Cléopâtre (La mort de Cléopâtre)...
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    that of his predecessor. Among his successes were Berlioz's massive Les Troyens (with Jon Vickers and Anja Silja) and Benvenuto Cellini, Verdi's Falstaff...
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  • 1980s, putting his personal stamp on the roles of Énée in Berlioz's Les Troyens, Radamès in Verdi's Aida and the title role in his Don Carlos, Handel's...
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    hall in London. The story of the Aeneid was made into the grand opera Les Troyens (1856–1858) by the French composer Hector Berlioz. The Aeneid was the...
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    ohne Schatten, the title role of Verdi's Otello, Aeneas in Berlioz's Les Troyens, and the title role of William Bolkom's McTeague. In concert, he performed...
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