Les Troyens

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Only knowing the work from a piano score, the British critic W.J. Turner declared that Les Troyens was “the greatest opera ever written” in his 1934 book on Berlioz, much preferring it to the vastly more popular works of Richard Wagner. American critic B. H. Haggin heard in the work Berlioz’ “arrestingly individual musical mind operating in, and commanding attention with, the use of the [Berlioz] idiom with assured mastery and complete adequacy to the text’s every demand”. David Cairns described the work as “an opera of visionary beauty and splendor, compelling in its epic sweep, fascinating in the variety of its musical invention… it recaptures the tragic spirit and climate of the ancient world.”
Les Troyens (in English: The Trojans) is a French opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz. The libretto was written by Berlioz himself, based on Virgil’s epic poem The Aeneid. Written between 1856 and 1858, Les Troyens was Berlioz’s largest and most ambitious work, the summation of his entire artistic career, but he never saw the opera performed in its entirety during his lifetime.

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