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Les Troyens (2009) [N/A]

Release Date:
October 31, 2009

Original Title:
Les Troyens

Genres:
Music

Production Companies:
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia
Unitel Classica

Production Countries:
Spain

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 254

Monumental operas deserve epochal stagings

Overview from TheMovieDB

This grand opera, complete with ensembles and ballets, large choruses and orchestral set pieces, is given an appropriately grand treatment in this production by the renowned Catalan theater group "La Fura dels Baus" recorded at Valencia's Palau de les Arts. In the first part of the work, Padrissa plays with the present-day meaning of "Trojans" as computer viruses: his Trojan horse carries within it the infection that will cause system failures and, ultimately, destruction. In the second part, Carthage is presented as the mysterious seat of a future civilization, where human life is heading towards self-destruction through environmental disasters.

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Production

Adaptation:
Hector Berlioz

Conductor:
Valeri Gergijev

Costume Designer:
Chu Uroz

Director:
Carlus Padrissa

Lighting Artist:
Peter van Praet

Music:
Hector Berlioz

Set Decoration:
Ronald Olbeter

Story:
Publius Vergilius Maro

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