Prom 11 - Berlioz - The Trojans
From: Sunday, 22nd July 2012
To: Sunday, 22 July 2012
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Our Review:
23 July 2012
BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall
What a difference a venue and a change of format can make. Following its underwhelming run at the Royal Opera House, and freed from both orchestra pit and the confines of David McVicar’s lacklustre production, the Royal Opera’s Proms performance of Les Troyens was simply electrifying. It rivalled Colin Davis’s monumental 2003 LSO concert performance for sheer excitement, and there can be no higher praise than that.
While at Covent Garden much of the playing had seemed sluggish and under-powered (on the first night at least), here there was a clarity, detail and impetus that was staggering. Episodes such as the Royal Hunt and Storm, which went for nothing on stage, were thrilling and the Act 4 extended ballet sequence, interminable and dramatically inert before, came to vibrant life when isolated from the mediocre choreography.
There was a danger that the power of B...
Cast
Bryan Hymel (Aeneas)
Fabio Capitanucci (Coroebus)
Ashley Holland (Panthus)
Brindley Sherratt (Narbal)
Ji-Min Park (Iopas Iopas)
Barbara Senator (Ascanius)
Anna Caterina Antonacci (Cassandra)
Eva Maria Westbroek (Dido)
Hanna Hipp (Anna)
Ed Lyon (Hylas)
Robert Lloyd (Priam)
Lukas Jakobski (Greek Chieftain)
Jihoon Kim (Helenus)
Pamela Helen Stephen (Hecuba)
Creative
Antonio Pappano (Sir) (Conductor)
Royal Opera Chorus (Company)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House (Company)
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