Released:
1995-06-03

Overview:
Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachino Rossini's epic opus ERMIONE is based on Jean Racine's play "Andromache." Set in Troy after the city fell to the Greeks, the production recounts the rancorous battle between widow Andromache and Helen of Troy's green-eyed daughter, Ermione for the love of Pyrrhus

Directors:
Humphrey Burton, Graham Vick

Runtime:
2h 18min

Genre:
Music

• Cast:
• 
  Anna Caterina Antonacci
  as
  Ermione
• 
  Diana Montague
  as
  Andromache
• 
  Jorge Lopez-Yañez
  as
  Pyrrhus
• 
  Bruce Ford
  as
  Orestes
• 
  Paul Austin Kelly
  as
  Pylades