Our Own Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin has devised something to keep you warm on those long winter nights: a complete performance of Les Troyens from 1974!

Hector Berlioz
LES TROYENS

Metropolitan Opera
Rafael Kubelik, conductor
16 March 1974

I: La prise de Troie
Cassandre – Shirley Verrett
Chorèbe – Louis Quilico
Enée – Jon Vickers
Ascagne – Judith Blegen
Priam – Edmond Karlsrud
Hécube – Jean Kraft
Helénus – William Lewis
Polyxène – Maureen Smith
Panthée – Richard T. Gill
Lombre d’Hector – Clifford Harvuot
Soldat troyen – Russell Christopher

II: Les Troyens à Carthage
Didon – Christa Ludwig
Anna – Mignon Dunn
Narbal – John Macurdy
Iopas – Kenneth Riegel
Ascagne – Judith Blegen
Panthée – Richard T. Gill
Enée – Jon Vickers
Mercure – Edmond Karlsrud
Hylas – Leo Goeke
1re sentinelle – Andrij Dobriansky
2e sentinelle – Richard Best
Spectre de Priam – Edmond Karlsrud
Spectre de Chorèbe – Robert Goodloe
Spectre de Cassandre – Lorraine Keane
Spectre d’Hector – Clifford Harvuot

La Cieca

James Jorden (who wrote under the names "La Cieca" and "Our Own JJ") was the founder and editor of parterre box. During his 20 year career as an opera critic he wrote for the New York Times, Opera, Gay City News, Opera Now, Musical America and the New York Post. He also raised his voice in punditry on National Public Radio. From time to time he directed opera, including three unsuccessful productions of Don Giovanni. He also contributed a regular column on opera for the New York Observer. James died in October 2023.

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