Beyond the fact that the cast is huge, however, (the opera house were fielding the largest number of extras ever), there is little about the story that makes the work anything but a joy to follow.

The splendor of "Les Troyens" promises to be on full-screen display when the Metropolitan Opera telecasts its production Saturday in "The Met: Live in HD" series to movie theaters around the globe.

Reporting from SAN FRANCISCO — Berlioz’ “Les Troyens” -- a five-hour epic opera after Virgil’s “Aeneid” with touches of Homer, Shakespeare and music like none ever written before for the lyric stage - ...

Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Tenor Marcello Giordani has decided ...

Bryan Hymel (center) as Aeneas in the Metropolitan Opera's production of 'Les Troyens,' airing at 11 a.m. Sunday (June 30) on WYES. (PBS) Back in December, New Orleans tenor Bryan Hymel saved the day ...

Seattle Opera will present this January a concert rendering of Hector Berlioz's Les Troyens—an epic tale of fate, love, and betrayal that is as grand in scope as it is rarely performed. This special ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Marcello Giordani struggled mightily, his top notes effortful and thin. It turned out the tenor's third performance of Aeneas in the Metropolitan Opera's revival of Berlioz's "Les ...

Hector Berlioz died in 1869 without ever seeing a full production of the project dearest to his heart—his grand opera, Les Troyens, which he had completed in 1858. There was a reason he couldn’t get ...

Les Troyens is really two operas. In the first two acts Troy falls to the Greeks after the naïve defenders ignore the prophecies of doom from Cassandra and drag the Trojan horse into the city. After ...

Right after a stage version of "Aladdin" at a Disney's theme park, director Francesca Zambello made a cultural U-turn and parked her magic carpet outside the Metropolitan Opera. Although Zambello is ...