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 ...

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 ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — Joshua Blue is made for French Romantic opera. The tenor’s ringing bell of a voice softened the consonants and enveloped the vowels in ways no other language would allow, ...

Gardiner is a leaping, rather than walking, advertisement for the adage that age only makes you younger; he tore through the livelier scenes with the sharpest of edges from his Orchestre ...

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 ...

All the devils are here: inside Richard Jones's theatre of cruelty for Glyndebourne's new staging of 'Le Damnation de Faust' ...