LES TROYENS:Berlioz
Original Air Date: 02/18/1984
Levine; Norman, Sooter, Monk, Taillon, Plishka, Ahlstedt
MOD Audio SID.19100642
Norman repeated Verrett’s double assumption on this broadcast (Verrett’s was for the opening of the production in 1973 when Ludwig was indisposed–I was there, quite an evening). I rather prefer Norman’s Didon to her Cassandre, but this broadcast now takes its place in MOoD. Enee is close to an impossible part, but Sooter is no worse than Ronald Dowd was in Boston for Caldwell.
I: La prise de Troie
Cassandra……………Jessye Norman
Coroebus…………….Allan Monk
Aeneas………………Edward Sooter
Ascanius…………….Claudia Catania
Priam……………….Ara Berberian
Hecuba………………Lucille Beer
Helenus……………..Robert Nagy
Andromache…………..Jane White
Astyanax…………….Robert Sanchez [Last performance]
Panthus……………..John Cheek
Hector’s Ghost……….Morley Meredith
Trojan Soldier……….Vernon Hartman
II: Les Troyens à Carthage
Dido………………..Jessye Norman
Anna………………..Jocelyne Taillon
Narbal………………Paul Plishka
Iopas……………….Douglas Ahlstedt
Ascanius…………….Claudia Catania
Panthus……………..John Cheek
Aeneas………………Edward Sooter
Mercury……………..Julien Robbins
Hylas……………….Philip Creech
Trojan Soldier……….John Darrenkamp
Trojan Soldier……….James Courtney
Priam’s Ghost………..James Courtney
Coroebus’s Ghost……..Allan Glassman
Cassandra’s Ghost…….Jean Kraft
Hector’s Ghost……….Morley Meredith
Act II: Ballet
Builders: Deanne Lay, Fredrick Wodin, Marcus Bugler
Sailors: Gary Cordial, Christopher Stocker, Linda Gelinas
Farmers: Kimberly Graves, Antoinette Peloso, Leonard Greco
Conductor……………James Levine