Name: Les Troyens
Start: 2009-10-31T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2009-11-12T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía

Organization

Tenor

Stephen Gould

Aeneas

Lance Ryan

Baritone

Gabriele Viviani

Coroebus

Bass

Giorgio Giuseppini

Pantheus

Stephen Milling

Narbal

Mezzo-soprano

Elisabete Matos

Cassandra

Soprano

Daniela Barcellona

Dido

Veronica Simeoni

Zlata Bulycheva

Anna

Dmitry Voropaev

Hylas

Askar Abdrazakov

Priam

Conductor

Valery Gergiev

Stage director

La Fura dels Baus

Chorus master

Francesc Perales

Carlus Padrissa

Oxana Sharova

Ascanius

Eric Cutler

Iopas

Video

Franc Aleu

Set designer

Roland Olbeter

Costume designer

Chu Uroz

Lighting designer

Peter van Praet

Tomeu Bibiloni

The God Mercury

Greek Captain

Trojan Soldier

Yuri Vorobiov

Ghost of Hector

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia

Others

Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana

Orchestra

Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

French

Les Troyens -  (The Trojans)

Valencia

Spain

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía

Auditori

Monumental operas deserve epochal productions. And "Les Troyens" by Hector Berlioz is one such work. This grand opera, featuring ensembles and ballets, large choirs and orchestral pieces, is given appropriately grand treatment in this production by the renowned Catalan theater company "La Fura dels Baus", recorded at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia. In this co-production with St Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater and Warsaw's Wielki Theater, Fura director Carlus Padrissa has his faithful collaborators Franc Aleu (video), Roland Olbeter (set design), Chu Uroz (costumes) and Peter van Praet (lighting) gathered around him, who also designed Valencia's sensational "Ring des Nibelungen" (also to be seen on fidelio). "That this is such eye candy

In the first part of the work, Padrissa plays with the current meaning of "Trojans" as computer viruses: His Trojan horse carries the infection that causes system failures and ultimately destruction. In the second part, Carthage is presented as the mysterious seat of a future civilization where human life is on the way to self-destruction caused by environmental disasters. "Ancient myth meets Star Wars" (International Herald Tribune).

Much of the production's success is due to conductor Valery Gergiev, who "directs a thoughtful, detailed performance and elicits delicate playing from the orchestra" (International Herald Tribune). The Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana itself emphasizes "the high musical quality it has achieved in its fifth season" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). Among the great casts with excellent singers, the lead trio stands out: Daniela Barcellona as "breathtaking Dido" (Das Opernglas) and "true prima donna" (Il Resto del Carlino), the effortlessly singing Lance Ryan as Aeneas and Elisabete Matos, the a "intense, highly expressive" (Das Opernglas) portrait of Cassandra. This is a "worthy and compelling glittering version"

An epic Opera by Hector Berlioz based on Virgil's Aeneid. A joint production of the Palace of arts of Queen Sofia (Valencia), the avant-garde troupe "La Fura dels Baus", the Mariinsky theatre and the Polish national Opera.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble