BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 64 - Berlioz’s The Trojans (320kbps .mp3)

BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 64 - Berlioz’s The Trojans (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: Dinis Sousa conducts Berlioz's The Trojans with his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, the Monteverdi Choir and a starry line-up of soloists.

01. Berlioz - The Trojans, Acts 1 and 2
01a. Introduction to Berlioz’s The Trojans
01b. BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 64 - Interval 1
Jeremy Sams talks to Martin Handley about how Berlioz came to write The Trojans and tells the story of its tortuous and frustrated journey to the stage. Plus, a sequence of music by composers Berlioz admired.
02. Berlioz - The Trojans, Acts 3 and 4
02a. BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 64 - Interval 2
Classicist Natalie Haynes joins Martin Handley to discuss what we know about the history of Troy and the myths it has produced.
03. Berlioz - The Trojans, Act 5

Iopas & Hylas....Laurence Kilsby (tenor)
Hècube....Rebecca Evans (soprano)
Hector/Sentinelle II/ Mercure/Narbal.... Alex Rosen (bass)
Cassandra....Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
Aeneas....Michael Spyres (tenor)
Dido....Paula Murrihy (mezzo-soprano)
Coroebus....Lionel Lhote (baritone)
Ascanius....Adèle Charvet (soprano)
Priam.... Tristan Hambleton (bass-baritone)
Panthus....Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
Anna....Beth Taylor (contralto)

The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Dinis Sousa (conductor)

Few musical spectacles are bigger or more overwhelming than Berlioz’s The Trojans – the five-act grand opera, retelling the story of the fall of Troy and the doomed love of Dido and Aeneas, that the composer saw as the pinnacle of his career. By turns monumental and heartbreakingly intimate – a cinematic epic before its time – the vast score reshapes Virgil’s Aeneid with unprecedented dramatic scope and intensity. The Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique bring love of Berlioz to the music, with the help of an outstanding cast that includes British mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and American tenor Michael Spyres.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Broadcast: 3 September 2023