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Berlioz - Les Troyens / Lakes · Pollet · Voigt · Quilico · Courtis · Perraguin · Ainsley · Dutoit

Description: In the absence of Colin Davis's pioneering Les Troyens recording on Philips (temporary, one hopes), Charles Dutoit's more recent 1993 outing with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Chorus gives a vital, idiomatically French account of the opera, despite mixed success with the singers. Few operas are as nightmarish to cast as this epic about the Trojan War and its aftermath, and it would have been better made either a few years earlier when Plácido Domingo and Jessye Norman were still performing it, or a few years later, when Ben Heppner and Renée Fleming might be recruited. In the central role of Aeneas, Gary Lakes has been u ... (more)
Manufacturer: Decca
Release date: 18 October 1994
EAN: 0028944369328 UPC: 028944369328
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