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Few 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. The Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique bring love of Berlioz to the music, with the help of an outstanding cast that includes British mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and American tenor Michael Spyres.

Concert performance; sung in French with English surtitles

There will be two intervals

Sir John Eliot Gardiner has decided to withdraw from the performance of The Trojans at this year’s ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms.

We are grateful that Dinis Sousa will step in to conduct the performance on 3 September.

Image: Michael Spyres © Marco Borrelli