opera notebook
some operas I have seen on videoHector Berlioz, Les Troyens (1863)
libretto by the composer
Palau de les Arts, Valencia, 2009
- Conductor: Valery Gergiev
- Director: Carlos Padrissa
- Set Designer: Roland Olbeter
- Énée: Lance Ryan
- Didon: Daniela Barcellona
- Cassandre: Elisabete Matos
Certainly a lively production, with a robo-Trojan-Horse, a boxing-match ballet, hordes of chorus members in Star Wars outfits and hockey uniforms, Death-Star decor, dangling super-snakes, all manner of harnesses that haul singers through the air, sometimes upside down …