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Les Troyens (composed 1856-58) (review)
- The Opera Quarterly
- Oxford University Press
- Volume 19, Number 3, Summer 2003
- pp. 446-485
- Review
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The Opera Quarterly 19.3 (2003) 446-485
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Les Troyens (composed 1856-58)
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[Erratum]
Aeneas: Jean Giraudeau | Mercury: [?] Frank |
Cassandra/Dido: Marisa Ferrer | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra |
Coroebus/Narbal: Charles Cambon | BBC Theatre Chorus |
Ascanius: Irene Joachim/Maria Branèze | Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor |
Pantheus: Charles-Paul | Live performance, 3 & 4 June 1947 |
Anna: Yvonne Corke | Malibran-Music (distributed by Qualiton |
Iopas: Franz Vroons | Imports) cdrg 162 (3 CDs) |
Hylas: Colin Cunningham | |
"Les Troyens à Carthage" only | |
Aeneas: Jean Giraudeau | Ascanius: Micheline Rolle |
Dido: Arda Mandikian | Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du |
Narbal: Xavier Depraz | Conservatoire de Paris |
Anna: Jeannine Collard | Ensemble Vocal de Paris |
Iopas: André Dran | Hermann Scherchen, conductor |
Hylas: Bernard Gallet | Live performance, 29 May 1952 |
Pantheus: Gérard Abdoun | Tahra tah-143-44 (2 CDs) |
Aeneas: Richard Cassilly | Ascanius: Frances Wyatt |
Cassandra/Ghost of Cassandra: Eleanor Steber | Ghost of Hector/Priam/Ghost of Priam/Ghost of |
Dido: Regina Resnik | Coroebus/Mercury: Chester Watson |
Coroebus: Martial Singher | Orchestra and Chorus of the American Opera |
Narbal: John Dennison | Society |
Anna/Hecuba: Regina Sarfaty | Robert Lawrence, conductor |
Iopas: William Lewis | Live performance, 29 December 1959 and |
Hylas/Helenus: Glade Peterson | 12 January 1960 |
Pantheus/Trojan soldier: Kenneth Smith | VAI Audio 1006-3 (3 CDs) [End Page 446] |
Aeneas: Mario Del Monaco | Ghost of Hector: Antonio Cassinelli |
Cassandra: Nell Rankin | Priam: Ugo Novelli |
Dido: Regina Resnik | Hecuba: Edith Martelli |
Coroebus: Lino Puglisi | Trojan Soldier: Carlo Forti |
Narbal: Nicola Zaccaria | Sentries: Giuseppe Morresi, Dario Caselli |
Anna: Adriana Lazzarini | Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala |
Iopas/Helenus: Regolo Romani | Rafael Kubelik, conductor |
Hylas: Piero De Palma | Live performance, 5 May 1960 |
Pantheus: Agostino Ferrin | Sung in Italian |
Ascanius: Fiorenza Cossotto | Myto (distributed by Qualiton) mcd-021.256 (3 CDs) |
(Excerpts only) | |
Aeneas: Guy Chauvet | Ascanius: Jane Berbié |
Cassandra/Dido: Régine Crespin | Orchestra and Chorus of the Théâtre National |
Narbal/Mercury: Jean-Pierre Huteau | de l'Opéra de Paris |
Anna: Marie-Luce Bellary | Georges Prêtre, conductor |
Iopas: Gérard Dunan | Recorded January, February, and May 1965 |
Pantheus: Lucien Vernet | EMI Classics cdm-63480 |
Aeneas: Nicolai Gedda | Ghost of Hector: Federico Daviá |
Cassandra: Marilyn Horne | Trojan soldier/Greek soldier 1: Renato Borgato |
Dido: Shirley Verrett | Greek soldier 2/Sentry 1: Teodoro Rovetta |
Coroebus/Ghost of Coroebus: Robert Massard | Sentry 2: Graziano del Vivo |
Narbal: Boris Carmeli | Hecuba/Ghost of Cassandra: Rosina Cavicchioli |
Anna: Giovanna Fiorini | Polyxena: Mina Milardi |
Iopas/Helenus: Veriano Luchetti | Orchestra and Chorus of RAI, Rome |
Hylas: Carlo Gaifá | Georges Prêtre, conductor |
Pantheus: Robert Amis el Hage | Live performance, 30 May 1969 |
Ascanius/Ghost of Cassandra: Rosina Cavicchioli | Arkadia (distributed by Qualiton) cdmp-461-4 |
Priam/Ghost of Priam/Mercury: Plinio Clabassi | (4 CDs, coupled with La damnation of Faust) |
Aeneas: Jon Vickers | Ghost of Hector (act 5)/Greek captain/Sentry 2: |
Cassandra: Berit Lindholm | Dennis Wicks |
Dido: Josephine Veasey | Ghost of Priam/Sentry 1: Raimund Herincx |
Coroebus: Peter Glossop | Helenus: David Lennox |
Narbal/Ghost of Hector (act 2): Roger Soyer | Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, |
Anna: Heather Begg | Covent Garden |
Iopas: Ian Partridge | Wandsworth School Boys' Choir |
Hylas: Ryland Davies | Colin Davis, conductor |
Pantheus: Anthony Raffell | Recorded October 1969 |
Ascanius: Anne Howells | Philips (distributed by Universal Classics) |
Priam/Trojan soldier/Mercury: Pierre Thau | 416 432-2 (4 CDs) |
Hecuba/Ghost of Cassandra: Elizabeth Bainbridge | |
Aeneas: Ronald Dowd | Sentry 2: Naymond Thomas |
Cassandra: Maralin Niska | Helenus: Marshall Reiner |
Coroebus: Louis Quilico | Trojan soldier: René Melville |
Narbal/Mercury: Ronald Hedlund | Greek captain: Terrance Tobias |
Anna: Eunice Alberts | Polyxena: Nalora Steel |
Iopas/Hylas: Grayson Hirst | Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera Company |
Pantheus/Narrator: Gimi Beni | of Boston |
Ascanius: Cheryl Biggs | Sarah Caldwell, conductor [End Page 447] |
Priam/Ghost of Hector: Herbert Beattie | Live performance, 6 February 1972 |
Hecuba: Jan Curtis | Premiere Opera cdn-02174 (4 CDs) |
Ghost of Priam/Sentry 1: Richard Christ | |
Aeneas: Guy Chauvet | Hecuba: Milkana Nikolova |
Cassandra/Ghost of Cassandra: Helga Dernesch | Helenus: Ewald Aichberger |
Dido: Christa Ludwig | Ghost of Hector: Tugomir Franc |
Coroebus/Ghost of Coroebus: Wolfgang Schöne | Mercury: Georg Tichy |
Narbal: Nicola Ghiuselev | Polyxena: Olga Warla |
Anna: Margarita Lilowa... |