The splendor of "Les Troyens" promises to be on full-screen display when the Metropolitan Opera telecasts its production Saturday in "The Met: Live in HD" series to movie theaters around the globe.

Seattle Opera will present this January a concert rendering of Hector Berlioz's Les Troyens—an epic tale of fate, love, and betrayal that is as grand in scope as it is rarely performed. This special ...

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This season the Metropolitan Opera is reviving Francesca Zambello’s 2003 production of Hector Berlioz’s opera “Les Troyens,” conducted by Fabio Luisi. While men may be the warriors in the epic opera, ...

NEW YORK -- Hector Berlioz is probably the most misunderstood of the great composers. He is best known for one of his least representative pieces, the early "Symphonie Fantastique," which typecast him ...

Hector Berlioz died in 1869 without ever seeing a full production of the project dearest to his heart—his grand opera, Les Troyens, which he had completed in 1858. There was a reason he couldn’t get ...

The choice of Berlioz’s musical epic to celebrate the opening of the Metropolitan Opera’s one hundredth season was apt. The work has both grandeur and variety of scene, from the sack of a city to ...

Amazon mp3: $18 | Amazon CD: ~$31 | ArkivMusic: $37 | Qobuz: £28 - £33 (Hi-Res) | iTunes mp3: $19 Hector Berlioz’ epic Les Troyens: It’s daunting, it’s not particularly catchy, and it makes ...