Met 'Damnation' offers high-tech art and athletics Nov 9, 2008
That's a quick way to sum up the Metropolitan Opera's production of Hector Berlioz's masterpiece, "La Damnation de Faust," which opened Friday at Lincoln Center. It took computers and motion-sensitive cameras to create the pulsating water, fire, sky and grass that are the cinematic backdrop for the drama. (Yahoo News)
Buzz Briefs: Annie Lennox, Isaac Hayes Aug 19, 2008
Also on the 2008-2009 program are operas by Hector Berlioz, Giacomo Puccini, Gaetano Donizetti and Gioachino Rossini. Kinepolis has 23 cinema complexes in Belgium, France, Spain, Poland and Switzerland. (CBS News)
The right book for any trip Jul 6, 2008
The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz (Everyman) ranges over large parts of Europe and is about artistic aspiration in general, not just the agonies of being a musician. Next, a book that Berlioz loved enough to make an opera out of it, the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Penguin): for a long time, people assumed that a story so engagingly told must be a pack of lies, but where it can be checked it seems largely to be true. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Composers' Homes in Britain May 18, 2008
Hector Berlioz, ( 1803-1869) was the French composer of 'Harold in Italy,' 'Romeo et Juliette' and the opera 'Benvenuto Cellini. In 1851, while the Great Exhibition was going on, Berlioz visited London for the third time. (Suite101.com)
ASO chorus lands in Berlin May 16, 2008
There has been a lot of reminiscing about that first engagement at the Philharmonie and, in the long-timer crowd, memories of previous occasions they sang the work we ll perform Thursday through Saturday: Hector Berlioz s Requiem. (The ASOC s earlier recordings of this won the Grammy for best choral performance under Robert Shaw in 1985 and again under current music director Robert Spano in 2005; the Shaw recording also scored a Grammy for best classical album. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
UTPB tenor chosen to perform in Chicago area Apr 18, 2008
to perform Hector Berlioz's "Grande Masse des Morts" as part of two choir performances with a men's and mixed choir from the Chicago area. Davis said he enjoys music for the outlet it gives people to express themselves. (Odessa American, TX)
Nurturing the next generation of opera lovers Apr 13, 2008
The great French composer Hector Berlioz - whose monumental opera "Les Troyens" will be performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra later this spring - first caught the bug at age 11, during, of all things, his first Communion: As the choir sang the Eucharistic hymn, "I thought I saw heaven open," he recalled, "a heaven of love and chaste delight, a thousand times purer and more beautiful than the one I had so often been told about.". He later discovered that the tune for the hymn had been... (Boston Globe)
TSO launches new season from Star Trek to Shostakovich Feb 6, 2008
Other repeat guests include Charles Dutoit, who will lead a rare performance of the two-hour concert opera The Damnation of Faust by Hector Berlioz; Leonard Slatkin, Andrew Davis and Thomas Dausgaard. Quebec leader Bernard Labadie takes on an all-Canadian concert performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute next January. (Toronto Star)
Worlds best opera festivals Feb 4, 2008
24) opens with Hector Berlioz' epic opera "Les Troyens;" James Levine conducts. There are also All-Beethoven and All-Mozart weekends, a concert performance of Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" and more. (MSNBC -- Travel)
French Composer Hector Berlioz Sep 25, 2007
A brief biography of the life, career and works of Hector Berlioz - a major figure in the 19th century music Romantic movement and peer to Liszt and Wagner ... Major Works by Hector Berlioz. (Suite101.com)
Pavarotti: Opera's Golden Tenor Sep 6, 2007
Opera's Golden Tenor - TIME. Opera's Golden Tenor. (Time.com)
Production of Benvenuto Cellini Shines Aug 11, 2007
SALZBURG, Austria Hector Berlioz was devastated when his "Benvenuto Cellini" was booed off the stage 169 years ago ... Scene of Hector Berlioz's opera 'Benvenuto Cellini' during a dress rehearsal, on Sunday, August 5, 2007, in Salzburg. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Infotainment Aug 7, 2007
Benvenuto CelliniSalzburg: Members of the opera choir perform during a dress rehearsal of Hector Berlioz opera Benvenuto Cellini during a photocall at the Salzburg Cultural Festival. reuters. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Opera "Benvenuto Cellini" during photocall Aug 7, 2007
Opera singer Sung-Keun Park as Innkeeper performs during a dress rehearsal of Hector Berlioz' opera "Benvenuto Cellini" during a photocall at the Salzburg Cultural Festival (Salzburger Festspiele) in Salzburg Aug. 5, 2007. The Opera has its premiere on Aug. 10 as part of the annual Salzburg Festival. (Xinhuanet, China)
Glass concerto premire in November Jun 25, 2007
Combining long-established works with less familiar fare, it features pieces by such composers as Hector Berlioz and Ingram Marshall (Feb. 9-10), Franz Schubert and Ruth Crawford Seeger (March 15-16), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and John Luther Adams (May 3-4), and Richard Strauss and Edgard Varese (June 7-8). (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Robert Schumann Jun 9, 2007
Romantic Composer, Master in Piano Music and Voice. A poetic musician, his works relate to literature - poems, novels and plays. (Suite101.com)
'Messiah' origianlly written for Lent, Easter Apr 10, 2007
Tinkered with by various re-composers, and performed by huge choirs Handel could never have envisioned, the effect drew harsh criticism from the composer Hector Berlioz. The Frenchman described it as "a barrel of roast pork and beer," hardly the sacred work Handel wrote to inspire medication on the Christian faith. (Daily Triplicate)
