Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic offered a timely reminder of Berlioz’s astonishing gifts as a choral and orchestral writer Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust has long been described as a work ...

2 WAITRESS Will Embark on 10th Anniversary North American Tour This Fall 3 MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL Launches 25th Anniversary North American Tour Acclaimed conductor JoAnn Falletta leads a massive ...

Among the world’s Olympic-sized choral works — in the class of “Ode to Joy” ending Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony — are the 1837 Berlioz Requiem and the Finale of Boito’s 1868 opera “Mefistofele.” Both ...

"I am thrilled to lead The National Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorale in what is one of the most unique works in the choral-orchestral repertoire," said Engebretson. "NatPhil will share the stage ...

When Choral Arts Society of Washington’s artistic director, Scott Tucker, polled his musicians Sunday afternoon at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall asking how many were performing Hector Berlioz’s ...

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Technically, a Requiem is a type of Mass. Forty years ago, it might not have been necessary to define these terms, but in today's multi-centric societies, particularly the burping polyglot that is ...

A homage to love, Shakespeare and the symphonic form, Berlioz's symphony should be recognised as a triumph of drama, formal coherence and lyric beauty At a time when Hector Berlioz's music is played ...

Hector Berlioz's dramatic oratorio The Damnation of Faust is one of the odder creations of the 19th century. But then it's hard for us, at two centuries' remove, to relate to the 19th-century ...