This epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten years of the Trojan War. Cassandra tries to warn of the terrible fate to come, but fate is set and Troy falls. The first two acts cover this tragic end, then the flight of survivors to Carthage and events at Carthage continue in acts 3 - 5, culminating in the further voyage for Italy and Rome. This is Virgil's classic epic, in operatic form, in about a three and a half hour performance from French Opera.
Directed by Yannis Kokkos, Peter Maniura
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Cast
Anna Caterina Antonacci
Cassandra
Gregory Kunde
Aeneas
Ludovic Tézier
Chorèbe
Laurent Naouri
Narbal
Renata Pokupić
Anna
Susan Graham
Dido
Nicolas Testé
Panthée
Mark Padmore
Iopas
Stéphanie d'Oustrac
Ascagne
Topi Lehtipuu
Hylas / Hélélenus
Fernand Bernadi
La Fantôme d'Hector
René Schirrer
Priam / Mercure
Danielle Bouthillon
Hécube
Benjamin Davies
Un Soldat
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