Berlioz: Les Troyens

[jdperdrix]

A video broadcast of Berlioz's Les Troyens is available until July 14 (Bastille day!) here: https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/les-troyens by the Dutch National Opera and Ballet conducted by John Nelson. I've not listened to the 4 hours performance yet. But it includes a scene which is new to me from 42:20 to 49:00, showing a Greek soldier called Sinon.
Subtitles in French and English.
See the link for full cast.

[Alan Howe]

Interesting. I'll have to check whether it's on Nelson's recent recording.

[der79sebas]

The Sinon scene in act 1 has been cut by Berlioz in 1861. The full score is now lost, but the instrumentation has been reconstructed by Hufh Macdonald from the vocal score. It is included in the Dutoit recording (as ist the Prelude "Les Troyens a Carthage from 1863). It is not included in the Nelsons recording.