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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Overtures by Hector Berlioz (redirect from Le Carnival Romain)
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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