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Title Les Troyens / the Metropolitan Opera ; [music by] Hector Berlioz ; libretto by the composer, after Virgil ; producer, Clemente D'Alessio ; directed by Brian Large.

Publication Info. Long Beach, Calif. : Pioneer Classics, [2002]
©1984

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Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  DVD 782.1 TROYENS    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (253 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD video; stereo.
Note Opera in 3 acts.
Performer Tatiana Troyanos (Dido, Queen of Carthage), Jessye Norman (Cassandra), Placido Domingo (Aeneas), Allan Monk (Coroebus), Paul Plishka (Narbal), vocal soloists ; Vernon Hartman, John Macurdy, Barbar Conrad, Robert Nagy, Jane White, Robert Sanchez, Claudia Catania, John Cheek, Morley Meredith, Jocelyne Taillon, Douglas Ahlstedt, Julien Robbins, Philip Creech, John Darrenkamp, James Courtney, Allan Glassman, Jean Kraft, supporting soloists ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus, and Ballet ; James Levine, conductor.
Credits Executive producer, Michael Bronson ; associate producer, Karen Adler ; associate director, Diana Wenman ; choreographer, Gray Veredon ; camera, Bill Akerlund [and others] ; television stage managers, Terence Benson, Tony Marshall, Martha Yates ; production assistant, John Rice.
Event "[T]aped during the October 8, 1983 performance at the Metropolitan Opera. Because of a power failure during [this] performance ... a small part of Act II is from an earlier performance"--Container verso.
Note Originally broadcast on Live from the Met.
Summary The first uncut performance of Berlioz's opera at the Met, this production tells the story of the capture of Troy by the Greeks, and of the love of Dido and Aeneas.
Language In French with English subtitles.
Subject Operas -- Television adaptations.
Aeneas (Legendary character) -- Drama.
Dido (Legendary character) -- Drama.
Carthage (Extinct city) -- Drama.
Troy (Extinct city) -- Drama.
Trojan War -- Drama.
Trojans -- Drama.
Aeneas (Legendary character) (OCoLC)fst00798041
Trojan War. (OCoLC)fst01157294
Dido (Legendary character) (OCoLC)fst00893057
Operas. (OCoLC)fst01046191
Trojans. (OCoLC)fst01157298
Tunisia -- Carthage (Extinct city) (OCoLC)fst01896920
Turkey -- Troy (Extinct city) (OCoLC)fst01896842
Genre/Form Cultural television programs. (OCoLC)fst01710564
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
Televised operas. (OCoLC)fst01726269
Television adaptations. (OCoLC)fst01710478
Televised operas.
Television adaptations.
Cultural television programs.
Added Author Troyanos, Tatiana. Performer.
Norman, Jessye. Performer.
Domingo, Plácido, 1941- Performer.
Monk, Allan. Performer.
Plishka, Paul, 1941- Performer.
Levine, James, 1943-2021. Conductor.
D'Alessio, Clemente.
Large, Brian.
Veredon, Gray.
Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Troyens.
Virgil. Aeneis.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Performer.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Ballet. Performer.
Pioneer Classics (Firm)
Added Title Live from the Met.
Standard No. 013023167391
Music No. PC-11673 Pioneer Classics
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