Berlioz - Les Troyens - Graham, Antonacci - Gardiner 20043*DVD9 - NTSC - 16:9 - All Regions - PCM, DTS 5.1 - 5hrs
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish
Opus Arte 2004
Susan Graham, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Gregory Kunde, Renata Pokupic, Ludovic Tézier, Nicolas Testé, Laurent Naouri
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and the Monteverdi Choir
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Stage Director Yannis Kokkos
In 'The Capture of Troy', Anna Caterina Antonacci gives a performance, as Cassandre, of Callas-like intensity and histrionic force. Giving her all in the service of Berlioz's tragic anti-heroine, she sings her heart out in the character's baleful utterances. In Part 2, Susan Graham's at once imperious and vulnerable Didon is sensual in love, sombre and heart-rending in her final sorrow and death. If Gregory Kunde's Enée is not of a Vickers calibre, he manages to create a presence through his easy vocalisation, particularly in the love duet. Ludovic Tézier's approriately upright and throughly idiomatic Chorèbe, Renata Pokupi´c's attractive Anna, Mark Padmore's suitably poetic Iopas and, above all, Topi Lehtipuu's handsome, lyrically glorious Hylas stand out in a cast that has very few weaknesses. Add excellent sound and picture quality and you have a potential classic.' --Alan Blyth
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