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Les Troyens

2000 · 210 min

A long, stately staged opera that rewards patience with sweeping orchestral grandeur and tragic emotional sweep.

Overview
Alexandre Tarta's production of Berlioz's opera, recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in 2000. Sylvain Cambreling conducts, with performances by Jon Villars, Russell Braun and Tigran Martirossian.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • love
  • fate
  • betrayal
  • grief
Places
  • big city
  • sea
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror2
Humour1
Realism6
Romance6
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity8
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
music
Directed by
Herbert Wernicke, Alexandre Tarta
Written by
Hector Berlioz
Starring
Sylvain Cambreling, Jon Villars, Russell Braun, Tigran Martirossian, Robert Lloyd, Ilya Levinsky, Gaële Le Roi, Yvonne Naef
Runtime
210 min
Country
Germany
Languages
French

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