Les Troyens

Monumental operas deserve epochal stagings

This grand opera, complete with ensembles and ballets, large choruses and orchestral set pieces, is given an appropriately grand treatment in this production by the renowned Catalan theater group "La Fura dels Baus" recorded at Valencia's Palau de les Arts. In the first part of the work, Padrissa plays with the present-day meaning of "Trojans" as computer viruses: his Trojan horse carries within it the infection that will cause system failures and, ultimately, destruction. In the second part, Carthage is presented as the mysterious seat of a future civilization, where human life is heading towards self-destruction through environmental disasters.

• Release date
• October 31, 2009
• Runtime
• 254 min
• Genres
• Music
• Director
• Carlus Padrissa

Cast

Lance Ryan Énée Gabriele Viviani Chorèbe Giorgio Giuseppini Panthée Eric Cutler Iopas

O

Oksana Shilova Ascagne Elisabete Matos Cassandre

D

Daniele Barcellona Didon

Z

Zlata Bulycheva Anna