Russell Thomas

Jan 20, 2025 | classicalvoiceamerica.org | Erica Miner |Russell Thomas

SEATTLE — No other French opera embodies the designation “grand” associated with the magnificence of French opera at its height in 19th-century Paris as does Hector Berlioz’s epic Les Troyens. In this masterpiece, for which he wrote both music and libretto, Berlioz showed the love he held for Virgil, Shakespeare, Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, and other classicists and reached the creative peak he so desired throughout his career.