The Trojans: Deutsche Oper Berlin

About the Event

Explore the huge, sweeping panorama of Hector Berlioz' double opera, The Trojans, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Paul Daniel conducts a sterling ensemble, including Ildiko Komlosi and Roberto Alagna.

In his composition, Berlioz chooses consonance, melody and closed form, yet he also clashes with convention by employing unusual rhythms and tonality. Despite its echoes of grand opéra, the work does not belong to the genre. The music is ever changing and developing; one hardly ever sees the repetition that one encounters in grand opéra. Here, too, Berlioz anticipates modern compositional principles.

In French language, with German surtitles.

Conductor: Paul Daniel
Director: David Pountney
Stage design: Johan Engels
Costume design: Marie‐Jeanne Lecca
Chorus master: William Spaulding
Light design: Davy Cunningham
Choreographer: Renato Zanella

Énée: Roberto Alagna
Chorèbe: Markus Brück
Panthée: Seth Carico
Narbal: Tobias Kehrer
Iopas: Joel Prieto
Ascagne: Siobhan Stagg
Cassandre:  Ildiko Komlosi
Didon: Béatrice Uria‐Monzon
Anna: Ronnita Miller
Priam: Lenus Carlson
Greek military leader: Marko Mimica
Hector: Stephen Bronk
Hylas: Alvaro Zambrano
Hélénus: Clemens Bieber
A soldier: Andrew Harris
Two Trojan soldiers: Markus Brück, Lenus Carlson
Mercure: Stephen Bronk
Hécube: Hulkar Sabirova