He revived interest in a “problem child” in the pantheon of high romantic composers, bringing Berlioz overdue recognition as one of France’s greatest composers. By Adam Nossiter The Romantic-era ...

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It has been 200 years since the birth of Hector Berlioz, and he remains every bit as perplexing a composer as he was during his lifetime. Throughout the middle decades of the 19th century, Berlioz was ...

No, the latter isn’t a simple translation of the former. It’s a gargantuan symphonic tribute to Shakespeare by France’s greatest Romantic-era composer. Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) was the son of a ...

A gorgeous new recoding of Berlioz's DAMNATION DE FAUST, on the Erato label, has come my way and it is well-worth investigating. The work has entered the public consciousness with the recent revival ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Prepare for a heady double bill of iconic opera as Opera Orlando pits Berlioz against Mascagni (though not, sadly, in the ring). For two nights at Steinmetz — a venue made for this — Opera Orlando ...

Hector Berlioz’s last opera, “Beatrice and Benedict,” has been performed since 1862 — but Seattle Opera audiences heard a world premiere of the work last weekend. How so? The Seattle Opera production ...

Hector Berlioz described Beatrice and Benedict as "a caprice written with the point of a needle." Houston Grand Opera's first production of the composer's final work (its first staging of any of his ...

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