In music, Franz Liszt was the quintessential Byronic Hero. Like his modifying Romantic namesake, George Gordon (Lord Byron), Liszt was a beautiful, talented, and fundamentally flawed artist. Where ...

Hector Berlioz's musical story of unrequited love embodies a sweeping range of emotions that proves a welcome challenge for conductors. “Love is in the air”, as the lyrics of the pop classic profess, ...

Elizabeth Alker brings you an afternoon of great music-making including a focus on one of the finest orchestras in the world, ...

BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique, op. 14; La Mort de Cléopâtre (The Death of Cleopatra—1829 cantata). Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra with Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano (in ...

The conductor leads the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra in Hector Berlioz’s masterpiece. Join acclaimed conductor Guillermo Figueroa as he leads the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra through Hector Berlioz’s ...

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The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Jacques Lacombe open the 2016 Winter Festival, Sounds of Shakespeare, with a program pairing Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique and its rarely ...

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Hearts and flowers, a box of chocolates and a candlelight dinner are a perfectly acceptable way to show a sweetheart you care. But if each day is truly Valentine’s Day and your infatuation with ...

With “Hadestown” in The Bushnell’s Mortensen Hall and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra playing Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique” in its Belding Theater the same weekend, there’s enough supernatural ...