Les Troyens – Hector Berlioz – January 5, 2013 at 8:55 a.m. (Approximate running time: 300 minutes)

Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Production: Francesca Zambello
Set Designer: Maria Bjørnson
Costume Designer: Anita Yavich
Lighting Designer: James F. Ingalls
Choreographer: Doug Varone
Cast: Deborah Voigt (Cassandra), Susan Graham (Dido), Marcello Giordani (Aeneas), Dwayne Croft (Coroebus), Kwangchul Youn (Narbal)

Francesca Zambello’s acclaimed 2003 production of Berlioz’s Trojan War epic returns to the Met for its first revival. Fabio Luisi conducts a cast led by Marcello Giordani in the central role of Aeneas, the hero who flees the ruins of Troy for a new set of challenges in the North African kingdom of Carthage. Deborah Voigt reprises the role of the cursed Trojan prophetess Cassandra, which she sang in the new production premiere, and Susan Graham makes her Met role debut as Dido, the noble but heartbroken Queen of Carthage.