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

Call Number:
782.1 BERLIOZ

Publication Information :
Long Beach, Calif. : Pioneer Classics, [2002], c1984.

Physical Description:
1 videodisc (253 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:
Opera in 3 acts.
Originally broadcast on Live from the Met.

Creation/Production Credits:
Executive producer, Michael Bronson ; associate producer, Karen Adler ; associate director, Diana Wenman ; choreographer, Gray Veredon ; camera, Bill Akerlund ... [et al.] ; television stage managers, Terence Benson, Tony Marshall, Martha Yates ; production assistant, John Rice.

Performer(s):
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.

Date:
"[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.

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 Term:
Operas.
Aeneas Legendary character Drama.
Dido Legendary character Drama.
Trojan War Drama.
Trojans Drama.

Geographic Term:
Carthage Extinct city Drama.
Troy Extinct city Drama.

Genre Subject Term:
DVDs.

Added Author:
Troyanos, Tatiana.
Norman, Jessye.
Domingo, Plácido, 1941-
Monk, Allan.
Plishka, Paul, 1940-
Levine, James, 1943-
D'Alessio, Clemente.
Large, Brian.
Veredon, Gray.
Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Troyens.
Virgil. Aeneis.

Added Author:
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Ballet.
Pioneer Classics (Firm)

Uniform Title:
Live from the Met (Television program)