Berlioz: Les Troyens (Live)
Winner of the BBC Music Magazine Award 2018 (Opera), Gramophone Classical Music Award 2018 (Opera & Recording of the Year) and Opus Klassik 2018 (Operneinspielung des Jahres, Oper 19. Jh.). Taken from concert performances in Strasbourg that were described as "the musical event of the year", this recording of Berlioz's epic 'Les Troyens' presents the score absolutely complete.
Read more…John Nelson, unrivalled in his authority in this mighty work, conducts a cast led by Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Cassandre, Joyce DiDonato as Didon and Michael Spyres as Énée. This Erato recording of the complete, uncut score of 'Les Troyens' is drawn from two concert performances that took place over the Easter weekend in April 2017 in the city of Strasbourg in eastern France. A magnificent cast of singers, predominantly Francophone, assembled under the baton of John Nelson, an acknowledged master of Berlioz's music who has conducted 'Les Troyens' more frequently than anyone else over a period of more than 40 years; he made his name with the piece when he led performances at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1974 and enjoyed great acclaim for a production at the Frankfurt Opera shortly before the Strasbourg concerts.