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The choice of Berlioz’s musical epic to celebrate the opening of the Metropolitan Opera’s one hundredth season was apt. The work has both grandeur and variety of scene, from the sack of a city to ...

Hector Berlioz died in 1869 without ever seeing a full production of the project dearest to his heart—his grand opera, Les Troyens, which he had completed in 1858. There was a reason he couldn’t get ...

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Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The abridged performance features only the second part (Acts 3–5) of this ...

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 ...

Last night’s astonishing performance of Berlioz's masterpiece by the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and the Monteverdi Choir conducted by Dinis Sousa (pictured below) in a semi-staged version ...