Hector Berlioz News

“Can you tell me what it is, this capacity for emotion, this force of suffering that is wearing me out?” The focal point of Prom 58 was Hector Berlioz’s 49-minute “Episode in the Life of an Artist”, his Symphonie fantastique; written while he was still in his twenties and at the mercy of his infatuation with Harriet Smithson (who he had seen play Ophelia in Hamlet), it is a colourful and evocative tour de force. It’s also a piece that the Orchestre de Paris knows inside out.

Individual concert tickets for the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra's 2024-25 season will be available starting Friday, August 23.

American pianist Michael Stephen Brown is invited back to the Bard Music Festival for a concert on August 10, 2024, 1:30 pm at Olin Hall at Fisher Center at Bard (Manor Ave, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY 12504).

The Bard Music Festival will present a celebration of French Romantic composer Berlioz with 11 themed concerts, 5 livestreams, and more, starting August 9.

Meyerbeer’s LE PROPHÈTE will return to the U.S. stage for the first time in 47 years with a new treatment by Christian Räth at Bard SummerScape. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The International Circle of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées has revealed new initiatives to support global performing arts collaborations and cultural exchanges.

 At a press junket held on 28 June 2024 together with Wolfgang Rothe, the Commercial Director of the Semperoper Dresden, Peter Theiler announced the results of his final season as Artistic Director. 

The SF Symphony Youth Orchestra has announced Radu Paponiu as the new Wattis Foundation Music Director starting in the 2024–25 season.

Highlights of the 8-week Bard SummerScape in NY’s Hudson Valley include Meyerbeer’s opera LE PROPHÈTE and the Bard Music Festival, BERLIOZ & HIS WORLD.

The Czech Philharmonic, under Chief Conductor and Music Director Semyon Bychkov, commemorates the centennial of the Year of Czech Music in 2024 with a variety of programs around the world, with performances at major world concert halls featuring renowned guest soloists.

Bajo la batuta del director de orquesta británico Paul Goodwin, la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, presenta su programa titulado El ideal sinfónico de Beethoven, el viernes 24 y domingo 26 de mayo a las 20:00 h y 12:15, respectivamente, en la Sala Principal del Palacio de Bellas Artes.

Tanglewood has announced additional programs and updates to its 2024 season (June 20–August 31), which celebrate the legacy of Seiji Ozawa and reflect the BSO's commitment as a service organization to advancing the humanities and enriching the lives of Berkshire residents: 

A classic of German expressionism will be plaiyng at Theatro Sao Pedro on the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th of May. Conducted by Marcelo Falcao, the Theatro Sao Pedro Orchestra will perform the film's soundtrack, presented in partnership with Cinemateca Brasileira.

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 and times of visionary French composer Hector Berlioz, whose grand-scale works, startling sonorities, and advanced literary leanings helped redefine musical Romanticism.

As a highlight of the 2024 Bard SummerScapefestival, the Fisher Center at Bard presents the first new American production in almost five decades of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Le prophète, an all-too-topical grand opera in which religion, politics, and power collide.

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra has announced details of the 2024-25 season, its 103rd, which will feature the greatly anticipated revival of Giants in the Earth – the Pulitzer Prize winning opera by American composer Douglas Moore (The Ballad of Baby Doe) based on Ole Edvart Rølvaag's epic novel about Norwegian settlers of the Dakota Territory in 1873.  The SDSO's production will be the first ever fully professional staging of Moore's opera.  More details on Giants in the Earth can be found at the bottom of this release.

The Fisher Center at Bard has revealed its SummerScape 2024 programming, running June 20 – August 18, 2024.

Seattle Opera has unveiled its 2024/25 season. Learn about the productions and see how to purchase tickets!

The Coolidge Corner Theatre (‘the Coolidge’) has revealed the lineup for its Winter / Spring 2024 Dance at the Cinema and Opera at the Cinema series. 

The opera will be presented in Portuguese and will feature black artists, such as soprano Marly Montoni and tenors Jean William and Mar Oliveira among the main characters; with Priscila Bomfim in the musical direction and Julianna Santos in the scenic direction. In celebration of Children's Day, there will be a performance on October 12th, at 5pm.