Film

Les Troyens

2009 · 4h 14m · Music

Monumental operas deserve epochal stagings

This grand opera, complete with ensembles and ballets, large choruses and orchestral set pieces, is given an appropriately grand treatment in this production by the renowned Catalan theater group "La Fura dels Baus" recorded at Valencia's Palau de les Arts. In the first part of the work, Padrissa plays with the present-day meaning of "Trojans" as computer viruses: his Trojan horse carries within it the infection that will cause system failures and, ultimately, destruction. In the second part, Carthage is presented as the mysterious seat of a future civilization, where human life is heading towards self-destruction through environmental disasters.

Lance Ryan

Énée

Gabriele Viviani

Chorèbe

Giorgio Giuseppini

Panthée

Eric Cutler

Iopas

Oksana Shilova

Ascagne

Elisabete Matos

Cassandre

Daniele Barcellona

Didon

Zlata Bulycheva

Anna

• Carlus PadrissaDirector
• Publius Vergilius MaroStory

Release date

October 31, 2009

Status

Released

Original language

French

Runtime

4h 14m

Genres

Music