Recording Berlioz’s Les Troyens in Strasbourg: Joyce DiDonato, Marie-Nicole Lemieux; Michael Spyres

Recording Berlioz’s Les Troyens in Strasbourg: Joyce DiDonato, Marie-Nicole Lemieux; Michael Spyres

Poste : Réalisateur captation DVD (4heure) This new Erato recording of the complete, uncut score of Les Troyens is drawn from two concert performances that took place over the Easter weekend in April 2017 in the city of Strasbourg in eastern France. A magnificent cast of singers, predominantly Francophone, assembled under the baton of John Nelson, an acknowledged master of Berlioz’s music who has conducted Les Troyens more frequently than anyone else over a period of more than 40 years; he made his name with the piece when he led performances at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 1974 and enjoyed great acclaim for a production at the Frankfurt Opera shortly before the Strasbourg concerts.