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Berlioz's The Trojans - October 31, 2015

San Francisco Opera

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This year's season of broadcasts from the San Francisco Opera on Classical 90.5 conclude this Saturday, October 31, with an 11:00 a.m. start of The Trojans by Hector Berlioz. The libretto is by the composer. The performance will be sung in French and will run approximately four hours and forty-five minutes.

One of the largest, most magnificent pieces in the entire repertory, this rarely staged epic is presented by San Francisco Opera for the first time in 47 years in the way it was originally meant to be seen as two back-to-back performances of The Fall of Troy and The Trojans at Carthage. The tragic fall of Troy, the passionate love of two great leaders, the urgent pull of destiny: all unfold as part of Berlioz’s visionary masterpiece, French grand opera's answer to Wagner's Ring. Former Music Director Donald Runnicles, who conducted the Ring cycle in 2011, returns to lead this intensely lyrical, colorfully orchestrated, and viscerally exciting score. David McVicar’s visually striking new production moves the action to the mid-19th century.

THE CAST
Cassandra: Anna Caterina Antonacci
Dido: Susan Graham
Aeneas: Bryan Hymel
Anna: Sasha Cooke
Narbal: Christian Van Horn
Iopas: René Barbera

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