Saturday afternoon saw the return of Berlioz's DAMNATION OF FAUST to the Met, not seen there since 2009. Because of logistical considerations it was mounted in concert form on the stage rather than in ...

Berlioz’s compelling take on the Faust legend returns to The Met for the first time in a decade, with an ideal line-up of stars. Tenor Michael Spyres is the doomed and besotted Faust, opposite ...

He was in his 20s then, having just quit medical school when the autopsies proved traumatic and his drive toward music won out over his physician father’s insistences. Then, he wrote eight small ...

World Premiere: Opéra-Comique, Paris, 1846. Berlioz’s magnificent exploration of the Faust legend is a unique operatic journey. The visionary French composer was inspired by a bold translation of ...

‘This marvellous book fascinated me from the first; I could not put it down’: Hector Berlioz’s first encounter with Goethe’s Faust I immediately inspired the 25-year-old composer to write settings for ...

Berlioz’s compelling take on the Faust legend returns for the first time in a decade, with an ideal lineup of stars. High-flying tenors Bryan Hymel and Michael Spyres sing the doomed and besotted ...

And the Romantic movement in which Berlioz played such a turbulent part is already in its decadence by the time of this operatic Faust's first misadventures, at odds among the turbulent Volk who ...

Opera? Cantata? “Opéra de concert”? One of the defining Romantic composers of the 19th century, Hector Berlioz gave “Damnation of Faust” audiences a work that even today defies categorization. Not ...