Berlioz's spectacular Symphonie fantastique is truly fantastic, says Jane Jones. I think this really is a fantastic symphony – not only in name. This was the first of four symphonies that Berlioz ...

Act One ends with "Serene and Peaceful Night," a gentle duet for Hero and Ursula (sopranos Nathalie Manfrino and Elodie Mechain). While strolling in the moonlight, they reflect on the delights ...

If you’re a cat lover and have ever seen Disney’s The Aristocats, chances are you’ve fallen in love with the adorable group of kitten siblings, especially the tiniest and sassiest one, named Berlioz.

Performances in N.Y.C. 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. Hector Berlioz, whose ...

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 ...

The composer was not religious but saw his L’enfance du Christ as a deeply human story – and audiences deemed it a triumph. By Phil Hebblethwaite Hector Berlioz’s Mémoires is perhaps the greatest ...

Klimts Make YUGE Bucks at Sotheby’s, and Are Maine’s Aggrieved Penobscots Happy to Let a Masterpiece Rot? Nuremberg in the Age of Lawfare A House of Dynamite’s Nuclear Options Audio By Carbonatix ...

Why is it human nature to want what we can’t have? In 1827, the 23-year-old Hector Berlioz attended a performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Odéon Theatre in Paris; Harriet Smithson, a charismatic ...

It took a long time for the great French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz to win his place among the immortals. When he died in 1869 he was a broken and embittered man, worn out from decades of ...

It’s sometimes called the "romantic passion," or the "romantic agony." Either way, the French composer Hector Berlioz had it in spades, an overwhelming sense of desire that blinded him to reality as ...

Fans of Hector Berlioz — and record companies, it appears — need no excuse to celebrate the music of the pioneering French composer and quick-witted music critic. The sesquicentennial of Berlioz's ...

Berlioz’s father was a country doctor practising near Grenoble who was musical enough to give his son his first lessons on the flute, though dead set against music as a career. (Later Berlioz took up ...