Berlioz's music is fabulous, and I am very grateful to have seen the Covent Garden production back in the 1950s, a traditionally staged version of the two operas performed in one evening, as the ENO is going to do. The two moments that stick in the memory are the Trojan March, choral version, belted out by massed chorus bunched together as for a whole-school photo, and in complete and wondrous contrast, the lone Trojan sailor high in the rigging of Aeneas' ship, singing a wistful and beautiful melody - don't know what it was about, but it was entrancing. But burning aircraft in the Aeneid? No thanks!   more »