Ermione

Ermione

138 mins | Music | June 3, 1995

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

Ermione

138 mins | Music | June 3, 1995

Ermione
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
Producers Channel 4 Television, NVC Arts, Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Original title Ermione
Directors Graham Vick, Humphrey Burton
Writers Andrea Leone Tottola, Jean Racine

Cast

Diana Montague

as Andromache

Jorge Lopez-Yañez

as Pyrrhus

Bruce Ford

as Orestes

Paul Austin Kelly

as Pylades

Gwynne Howell

as Phoenix

Julie Unwin

as Cleone

Lorna Windsor

as Cefisa

Paul Nilon

as Attalus

Oliver Bridge

as Astyanax