CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Mariinsky Orchestra

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 8:00 PM

Mariinsky Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor
Oksana Shilova, Soprano (Ascagne)
Elena Vitman, Mezzo-Soprano (Hécube)
Sergei Semishkur, Tenor (Énée)
Alexei Markov, Baritone (Chorèbe)
Nikolai Kamensky, Bass (Panthée)
Timur Abdikeyev, Bass (Priam)
Sergei Skorokhodov, Tenor (Helenus)
Additional artists to be announced
Chorus of the Mariinsky Theater
Andrei Petrenko, Chorus Master

BERLIOZ Les Troyens, Part I: The Siege of Troy, Op. 5

This concert is underwritten by Yoko Nagae Ceschina.

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Les Troyens is arguably Berlioz’s greatest masterpiece. Certainly it is his most ambitious opera, a grand panorama of antiquity, starting with the Trojan War and leading toward the legendary founding of Rome. Part I is a saga of blood and flames, burned into music with the scope and grandeur of an epic. The Greeks destroy Troy, and while the Trojan women die defiant, a small band of heroes flees toward a new destiny.