A hugely successful composer of bel canto opera, Gaetano Donizetti had a lasting impact, with many of his operas entering ...

While some may associate the name (Révolutionnaire et Romantique) with one of Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s orchestras, one may also wish to contemplate the narrative behind such a name. Two seemingly ...

“A Russian in America” highlights artistic currents moving between Russia and the US through three works. These include Hector Berlioz’s “Roman Carnival Overture,” Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Piano ...

A new era is born.

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 ...

The Journées Européennes du Patrimoine 2025, on September 20 and 21, opens the most unexpected doors in Paris! Head for the Hôtel Gouthière, a little-known 18th-century edifice designed by the royal ...

It was an absolutely brilliant evening at Chicago Symphony Hall Oct. 16 as a full audience was clearly enthralled by two major works by the superb French composer Hector Berlioz ...

In the opening sentence of Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel Amerika (New Directions), the Statue of Liberty is holding aloft a sword instead of a torch. There are disputes online about whether this was ...

Some concerts are just shows, and then there are nights like December 5, when berlioz — known offstage as Jasper Attlee — turned the Brooklyn Paramount into his personal playground of sound and soul.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Orchestra’s recording of Hector Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique,” led by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, is now available across all major digital music streaming ...