Berlioz: Les Troyens DVD (The Royal Opera)Berlioz: Les Troyens DVD is a masterpiece of musicality, including powerful military marches, emotive choirs, poignant soliloquies, and tender love duets between Dido and Aeneas. For Hector Berlioz, librettist and composer, the opera became the work of decades and the passion of a lifetime, the culmination of his literary love affair with Virgil's Aeneid and with two tragic heroines, Cassandra and Dido. David McVicar's staging is on an enormous scale,

Duration: 84+15 mins

with its three marvellous arias

John Cranko’s mastery of the art of the pas de deux finds its climax in Onegin

Mr Samsa: Neil Reynolds

Their duet has a delightful sense of discovery

her feelings change and she undergoes her own metamorphosis as she moves from childhood to adulthood

Year: 2015

often sensuous conducting by Semyon Bychkov and an intelligent

Paris: Valeri Hristov

dramatic lighting

hit home with terrific immediacy

Composers: Pietro Mascagni / Ruggero Leoncavallo