La plupart se pressent vers la sortie, pour transformer l'entracte en dîner express dans un restaurant voisin. Quelques autres s'installent dans le hall, et grignotent pensivement un sandwich. Dans ...

The choice of Berlioz’s musical epic to celebrate the opening of the Metropolitan Opera’s one hundredth season was apt. The work has both grandeur and variety of scene, from the sack of a city to ...

In a continuing bid to get the best international programming to the NCPA, a tie-up with New York’s prestigious Metropolitan Opera brings high-quality screenings of live opera playing at the MET. It’s ...

Still, if ever an opera were going to work in the cavernous Royal Albert Hall then it would be Les Troyens. First, there are the sheer forces involved, with its huge orchestra requiring three harps, ...

Seattle Opera will present this January a concert rendering of Hector Berlioz's Les Troyens—an epic tale of fate, love, and betrayal that is as grand in scope as it is rarely performed. This special ...

“What joy!” were the first words the chorus sang when the curtain went up Sunday afternoon in the War Memorial Opera House on the first complete production of Hector Berlioz’s two-part “Les Troyens” ...

It has been announced that tenor Jonas Kaufmann has withdrawn from singing the role of Enée in the Royal Opera House’s new production of Berlioz’s Les Troyens. Bryan Hymel, who recently performed the ...

Times are tough for American opera companies right now, with high-risk artistic projects being canceled right and left. Even the mighty Met is feeling the pinch, but one would never guess that from ...

The first complete recording of Hector Berlioz's opera "Les Troyens," issued on five LPs in 1970, changed a lot of minds. In large part because of his early, enormously popular -- and decidedly ...

(AP) Marcello Giordani struggled mightily, his top notes effortful and thin. It turned out the tenor’s third performance of Aeneas in the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Berlioz’s Les Troyens would be ...

Hector Berlioz's monumental opera "Les Troyens" was never performed in its entirety in his lifetime. That's not a surprise: Written in five acts, it has four hours of music and more than 20 named ...