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    Les Troyens ([le tʁwa.jɛ̃]; in English: The Trojans) is a French grand opera in five acts, running for about five hours, by Hector Berlioz. The libretto...
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    to the opera of the same name, composed in 1862. Berlioz's epic opera Les Troyens was never performed complete during his lifetime. In an attempt to have...
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  • This is a partial discography of Hector Berlioz's opera, Les Troyens. It was first performed on 4 November 1863 consisted of Acts 3 to 5 only. The first...
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    Grammophon DVD: Met's Les Troyens (October 8, 1983). OCLC 951020281. "Les Troyens" (October 8, 1983), Met Opera on Demand. Les Troyens (October 12, 1983)...
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    Hector Berlioz (category Pupils of Jean-François Le Sueur)
    Requiem and L'Enfance du Christ, his three operas Benvenuto Cellini, Les Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict, and works of hybrid genres such as the "dramatic...
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    that of his predecessor. Among his successes were Berlioz's massive Les Troyens (with Jon Vickers and Anja Silja) and Benvenuto Cellini, Verdi's Falstaff...
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  • Quichotte, La favorite, Dom Sébastien, Charles VI, Mignon, Samson et Dalila, Les Troyens, and Werther, as well as Carmen. Typical roles for mezzo-sopranos include...
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    her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1973 as Andromache in Berlioz's opera Les Troyens, the work's first staging in New York City. Montealegre made her final...
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    Les Troyens, OSM) 1995 – Prix Juno – Best classical recording of the year (Berlioz Les Troyens, OSM) 1995 – Grammy: Best Opera Recording (Berlioz Les...
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    valve pattern. The Trojan March (Marche Troyenne) of the Berlioz opera Les Troyens (1856–58) features an on-stage band which includes a family of saxhorns...
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  • (1955–58). In 1957, he conducted and recorded the World premiere Berlioz's Les Troyens. From 1961 to 1979, he was music director of the Bavarian Radio Symphony...
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    composed the score of Béatrice et Bénédict following the completion of Les Troyens in 1858. It was first performed at the opening of the Theater Baden-Baden...
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    famous portrayal as Dido, the tragic heroine of Berlioz's magnum opus, Les Troyens. As a concert performer, Baker was noted for her interpretations of the...
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  • success. Roles: Ariadne, Ariadne auf Naxos (Richard Strauss) Cassandre, Les Troyens (Hector Berlioz) La Gioconda, La Gioconda (Amilcare Ponchielli) Leonore...
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  • Berlioz's Les Troyens (title role of Énée), Requiem, the song cycle Les nuits d'été, La damnation de Faust, Rossini's Otello, Guillaume Tell and Le siège...
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    Hector Berlioz struggled to gain a hearing. Berlioz's epic masterpiece Les Troyens, the culmination of the Gluckian tradition, was not given a full performance...
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    clear from their extensive correspondence, and Berlioz dedicated his Les Troyens to her. Karolina Elżbieta Iwanowska was born at her maternal grandfather's...
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  • city of Troy Trojan language, the language of the historical Trojans Les Troyens ('The Trojans'), an opera by Berlioz, premiered part 1863, part 1890...
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    Western classical composition to feature a goblet drum is the opera Les Troyens (1856–1858) by the French composer Hector Berlioz, which calls for a...
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    French (Don José in Carmen; Samson in Samson and Delilah; Énée in Les Troyens; Hoffmann in Les Contes d'Hoffmann); and German (Lohengrin, Parsifal, and Siegmund...
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  • Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus & various artists for Berlioz: Les Troyens Best Choral Performance (other than opera) Gregg Smith (choir director)...
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    hall in London. The story of the Aeneid was made into the grand opera Les Troyens (1856–1858) by the French composer Hector Berlioz. The Aeneid was the...
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    Les francs-juges (1826–33; unperformed – survives in fragments) Benvenuto Cellini (1834–38) La Nonne sanglante [fr] (1841–47; unfinished) Les Troyens...
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    In TV series Helen of Troy - played by John Rhys-Davies. In theater Les Troyens in which King Priam plays a minor role. King Priam. Ancient Greece portal...
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    performance of Berlioz's Les Troyens. With the Metropolitan Opera, his professional opera conducting debut was also with Les Troyens, on one day's notice...
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    56337 Les nuits d'été and Opera Arias (Berlioz) Les nuits d'été Op. 7 and songs from La Damnation De Faust Op. 24, Benvenuto Cellini, Les Troyens, Béatrice...
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    Opéra de Lille, conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm, and Ascanius in Berlioz's Les Troyens with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and at the Tanglewood Music Festival...
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  • Mingardo, Kenneth Tarver & the London Symphony Orchestra for Berlioz: Les Troyens Best Choral Performance Martin Sauer (producer), Michael Brammann (engineer)...
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    Berlioz: Les Troyens in two categories: Best Classical Album and Best Opera Recording 2006: appointed Hovsångare by H.M. the King of Sweden Berlioz, Les Troyens...
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    libretti for two of his best-known works, La damnation de Faust and Les Troyens. Alban Berg adapted Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck for the libretto of...
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