When Hector Berlioz set out to write “Roméo et Juliette,” he vowed to honor Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers with a work “full of passion and imagination.” Mission accomplished. The composer adored ...

Berlioz’s “Roméo et Juliette” is not an opera but an elaborate “dramatic symphony” that calls for contralto, tenor, and bass soloists as well as a chorus. It’s indulgent, rich, over 90 minutes long, ...

Hector Berlioz’s “Romeo and Juliet,” which brought the San Francisco Symphony’s season to a richly dramatic conclusion in Davies Symphony Hall on Wednesday, June 28, doesn’t fit easily into any of the ...

I suppose I knew about the connection between Berlioz and Wagner, in the recesses of my mind, but I think I had forgotten it. More specifically, there is a connection between Roméo et Juliette ...

Les romantiques appréciaient les formes composites, propices à la synesthésie et à la conquête de nouveaux territoires pour l’art. Sur ce point, Berlioz ne fut pas en reste qui, après une Symphonie ...

Carved in the memory are his concert performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Mlada in "The Flight of the Firebird" festival, his high-octane piano playing as well as conducting in "The Gershwin Years", the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The Romantic-era composer, the focus of this year’s Bard Music Festival, wrote works that sprang from a mind capable of thinking only in pipe dreams. Hector Berlioz, whose ...

Seattle Symphony Berlioz’s extravagant symphony/oratorio/thing Romeo et Juliette. 7:30 p.m. Thurs., Feb. 12, 8 p.m. Sat., Feb. 14. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St ...