Seattle Opera will present this January a concert rendering of Hector Berlioz's Les Troyens—an epic tale of fate, love, and betrayal that is as grand in scope as it is rarely performed. This special ...

This August, the Bard Music Festival returns for its 34th season with an intensive two-week exploration of “Berlioz and His World.” In eleven themed concert programs, the festival examines the life ...

He revived interest in a “problem child” in the pantheon of high romantic composers, bringing Berlioz overdue recognition as one of France’s greatest composers. By Adam Nossiter The Romantic-era ...

In Hector Berlioz's day, a composer who wanted to be taken seriously had to write opera. So, Berlioz wrote opera and almost always had sketches for one in his back pocket. Here's the Slave Dance from ...

Hector Berlioz’s epic opera Les Troyens has been lucky on disc. Complete recordings have been few but they’ve tended to be crackers: Colin Davis, that greatest of Berlioz champions, recorded it twice, ...