Les Troyens

Les Troyens
grand opera in five acts
Music by Hector Berlioz
Libretto by the composer after motifs from Virgils Aeneid

Musical Director: Valery Gergiev
Stage Director: Carlus Padrissa
Video Graphics Designer: Franc Aleu
Production Designer: Roland Olbeter
Costume Designer: Chu Uroz
Lighting Designer: Peter van Praet
Choreographer: Emil Faski
Musical Preparation: Natalia Mordashova
Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko

Production by La Fura dels Baus
Co-production with the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia (Valencia) and Poland's Opera Narodowa

World premiere: 6 December 1890, Gro?herzogliches Hoftheater, Karlsruhe
Premiere of this production: 31 October 2009, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia
Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 25 December 2009, St Petersburg

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Troyens
• Berlioz
• Gergiev
• Mariinsky

[scampb14]

This is an utterly intelligent production that makes 'Les Troyens' resonate in the times in which we live. I love the fact that in the first half (Troy) the main action takes place in sports arenas while big cities decay in the background. And in the second half (Carthage) the world is lost, and the action takes place on a space ship modeled on the dome of Florence cathedral.

[TheVaughan5]

@franceseattle Agreed totally just another attempt by some egocentric producer to stamp "his" concept on a masterpiece, because obviously he knows far more than the composer ever did. Yes, opera production has to evolve like most things, but it doesn't have to be in this manner which is just plain junk.

[JZychowicz]

This video is a trailer, so it does not reflect the pacing of the production and the continuity between scenes. This is from the same house that offered a new production of Wagner's Ring (under Mehta's direction). Yet when it comes to being shocked or dismayed, it's been only over a century since opera was presented by singers standing in front of painted flats and mounted instead on in three-dimensional stagings.

[pumaman1]

That's got to be the stupidest stage production I've ever seen in my life!

[franceseattle]

Euro-trash pretty much sums it up. Anything to detract from the true nature and beauty of the music, the text, the story, etc. It's all about EGO - that of the production designer. What a jaded, calloused culture we are.. Whose uninspiring production is this? (not that it really matters)

[1Infini]

Un parfait exemple de ce que les Américains appellent la tendance "Euro-Trash" de la mise en scène d'opéra. Des metteurs en scène à l'ego enflé comme une baudruche, qui se servent de partitions sublimes comme prétexte au déploiement de leurs délires grotesques, et qui compensent leur absence d'inspiration par un maxiumum de tape-à-l'oeil hideux. A croire qu'ils essaient de noyer la beauté intrinsèque des oeuvres sous un déluge de laideur.

[jgesselberty]

Berlioz meets Star Wars. What crap.

[rumpwrestler]

This production looks like fun.  Some rather fancy technology.

[pelegrino791]

C'est Berlioz qui est profané par cette mise en scène ridicule !

[papoocanada]

!! HORREUR !!!! HORREUR !!!!!!!!!