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Winning tickets! Coming attractions for 2002-03, from Berlioz to Bolcom and Bach again.
What do you give a composer on his 200th birthday? If you're an impresario, you give him a performance--or forty. Hector Berlioz was born on December 11, 1803, and for companies across America and around the world, the new season launches a 200th-birthday celebration. If you're still recovering from the recent blowout celebrations of Verdi (the hundredth anniversary of his death seemed to last a decade), brace yourself. 2002-03 belongs to Berlioz, and many of the most hotly anticipated events this season are performances of his work.
During his lifetime, Berlioz enjoyed far greater success as a conductor than as a composer. Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, one of ...
- La Damnation De Faust. (CDs).(a collection of works by Berlioz first recorded...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Gooding, Wayne March 22, 2003 700+ words
Berlioz Verreau, Roux, Rubio, Mollet. Choeur...this non-opera in these pages. First, Berlioz, like Elgar, wears every dramatic instinct...The orchestra and chorus--as ever with Berlioz, crucial protagonists in the piece...
- Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust / L'Enfance du Christ
- Magazine article from: Opera News Luten, C J May 1, 1996 700+ words
...selections to Crespin. Conductor Matthew Best, convinced that Berlioz' L'Enfance du Christ is better served by dramatic emphasis...recording (newly reissued on London 443461, together with Berlioz' Meditation Religieuse, La Mort d'Ophelie, the enchanting...
- Hector Berlioz on DVD. (A Guide To).(Salzburg Festival presentations of Les...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Crory, Neil June 22, 2003 700+ words
...idiosyncratic and controversial figures of the 19th century: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). Described by J.H. Elliot, one of his...devilishly confused musical idiom." While in his 20s, Berlioz contemplated various operatic subjects (even Robin Hood...
- La Damnation de Faust.(Opera review)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Myers, Eric November 11, 2008 700+ words
...Hector Berlioz, with libretto by Berlioz and Almire Gandonniere, based...Metropolitan Opera debut with Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust" has been highly anticipated...match of opera and director. Berlioz's work was never really intended...
- La Damnation de Faust: A scene from the Opera Bastille production. (Opera in...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada December 22, 2001 700+ words
...the most striking scores in the French repertoire, Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust, with a star-studded cast, the rare presence...de Faust was first given in concert version under Berlioz's own direction in 1846. Almost 50 years elapsed...
- La Damnation de Faust: Metropolition Opera.
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada March 22, 2009 700+ words
...Metropolitan Opera debut with Hector Berlioz's "dramatic legend," La damnation de Faust. Although billed...technological arsenal might torpedo Berlioz's episodic score, it didn...of the Met's production of Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini a few...
- Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra to Present La Damnation de Faust.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 11, 2003 700+ words
...rare performance of Hector Berlioz's Le Damnation de Faust...mysticism and good versus evil, Berlioz blends these powerful thematic...the brink of the abyss. La Damnation De Faust-a legend in four parts by Hector Berlioz, based on Goethe's classic...
- La Damnation de Faust. (Canada: Montreal).(Opera Review)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Kaptainis, Arthur March 22, 2003 700+ words
Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust has been programmed three times by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra since the arrival in 1977 of Charles Dutoit. As it...