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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Season - Prom 64: Berlioz's 'The Trojans'
Performance Date3 September 2023
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time16:00
Main PerformersAlice Coote - Cassandra,
Michael Spyres - Aeneas,
Paula Murrihy - Dido,
Lionel Lhote - Coroebus,
Adèle Charvet - Ascanius,
William Thomas - Narbal,
Ashley Riches - Panthus,
Beth Taylor - Anna - vocals
Orchestra or BandOrchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
ChoirsMonteverdi Choir
ConductorsSir John Eliot Gardiner
Set List'The Trojans', Berlioz (concert performance; sung in French with English surtitles)
Performance NotesFew musical spectacles are bigger or more overwhelming than Berlioz’s The Trojans – the five-act grand opera, retelling the story of the fall of Troy and the doomed love of Dido and Aeneas, that the composer saw as the pinnacle of his career.

By turns monumental and heartbreakingly intimate – a cinematic epic before its time – the vast score reshapes Virgil’s Aeneid with unprecedented dramatic scope and intensity. Sir John Eliot Gardiner brings a lifetime’s love of Berlioz to the music, with the help of an outstanding cast that includes British soprano Alice Coote and American tenor Michael Spyres.

There were two intervals

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
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Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12976BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eightth Season71
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1007Coote; Alice (1968-); British mezzo-soprano
DS/UK/20068Spyres; Michael (fl 2008-); American tenor
DS/UK/21260Murrihy; Paula (fl 2015-); Irish mezzo-soprano
DS/UK/23504Thomas; William; British bass singer
DS/UK/6275Riches; Ashley (fl 2013); English bass-baritone
DS/UK/939Monteverdi Choir; 1964-; English baroque choir
DS/UK/937Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; 1989-; English orchestra
DS/UK/938Gardiner; Sir; John Eliot (1943-); CBE FKC; English conductor
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