Hector Berlioz described Beatrice and Benedict as "a caprice written with the point of a needle." Houston Grand Opera's first production of the composer's final work (its first staging of any of his ...

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. By Joshua Barone Esa-Pekka Salonen is known for ...

[Sarah Lenton] explores the Shakespearean influences in [Berlioz]’s opera, illustrated with live readings by actors. A complementary event to the LSO [Berlioz] Odyssey performance of Beatrice and ...

The production will open Thursday, March 26, in the Claude L. Shaver Theatre, whose curtain will open on a moonlit forest, setting the stage for romance. “The trees will disappear throughout the show, ...

Opera Orlando artistic director Grant Preisser had a nifty idea: There are two shortish operas, both set in a town square in Sicily, both taking place in a single day and both dealing with love and ...

Donald Macleod introduces us to Berlioz’s enigmatic mistress and second wife. Hector Berlioz was one the most innovative and rebellious musicians of 19th-century France. He was a man of unwaveringly ...

Irish National Opera seems to have an infallible instinct for casting. Admittedly it has a seemingly inexhaustible well of international Irish singers to draw upon. Mezzo Paula Murrihy’s world-class ...