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 ...

With all the mergers reshaping our society, the marriage of opera and movies may seem like a secondary kind of fusion, but it may become permanent and profound. With its live broadcasts, the Met has a ...

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 ...

A celebration of Hector Berlioz and a trip to the Adelaide Festival for The Magic Flute and a recital by Susan Graham. Opera Australia presents Strauss's Salome. Hector Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, ...

Conventional and moderate he was not, in life as in art, and so it is with Hector Berlioz' musical rendition of the Faust myth, which explodes all conventions and genres. Berlioz initially called his ...

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 ...