Seattle Opera will present this January a concert rendering of Hector Berlioz's Les Troyens—an epic tale of fate, love, and betrayal that is as grand in scope as it is rarely performed. This special ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. A gorgeous new recoding of Berlioz's DAMNATION DE FAUST, on the Erato label ...
(AP) The English National Opera says its 2013-14 season will include the world premiere of Oedipus-inspired opera “Thebans” and the return of Monty Python member Terry Gilliam to direct a new ...
He was in his 20s then, having just quit medical school when the autopsies proved traumatic and his drive toward music won out over his physician father’s insistences. Then, he wrote eight small ...
For more than seven 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
An opera commissioned by the manager of a casino? "Béatrice et Bénédict," the last major work by Hector Berlioz, indeed was commissioned by Benazet, the manager of the casino at Baden-Baden, a town in ...
The Romantic-era composer, the focus of this year’s Bard Music Festival, wrote works that sprang from a mind capable of thinking only in pipe dreams. By Joshua Barone Esa-Pekka Salonen is known for ...
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