Gulbenkian

Description

Les Troyens is opera at its most epic. The sheer scale of its story, music, passion, staging and performers make this one of the great Royal Opera events of the decade.

 

Berlioz’s great work is one of the most fabulously rich of all operas, a tour de force of passion in music, with extraordinarily demanding roles for the principal cast. The story is taken from Virgil’s great poem The Aeneid, and dramatizes the fall of Troy and Enée’s (Aeneas’) doomed affair with Didon (Dido), Queen of Carthage.

 

It brings alive a wealth of human emotions set against the monumental canvas of the rise and fall of empires. This new production by celebrated director David McVicar (whose work for The Royal Opera includes Rigoletto, Adriana Lecouvreur and Salome) is on an impressive scale. The extraordinary world-class cast includes Jonas Kaufmann (Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur and Cavaradossi in Tosca in the 2011/12 Cinema Season) as the heroic Enée, Eva-Marie Westbroek (Giorgetta in Il tabarro, the title role in Anna Nicole) as his beloved Didon and Anna Caterina Antonacci (who created the role of Carmen in Francesca Zambello’s production for The Royal Opera in 2006) as the doomed prophetess Cassandre, under the baton of Antonio Pappano.

 

Designs are by Es Devlin (designer for the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympics) and Moritz Junge. With such a team, this promises to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

 

Cassandre Anna Caterina

Antonacci Chorèbe

Fabio Capitanucci Enée Jonas Kaufmann

Didon Eva-Maria Westbroek

Royal Opera Chorus Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Conductor Antonio Pappano

Director David McVicar

Set designs Es Devlin

Costume designs Moritz Junge

Lighting design Wolfgang Göbbel

Choreography Andrew George

 

Tickets :

£13