Witches take over the Houston Symphony this weekend. Classical fans can guess what that means: the return of Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique," a sound spectacular, and no more so than in its ...

An execution, a feverish dream of a witches’ sabbath, obsessive love, suicide and murder. These are elements in Hector Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique,” which can only lead to one question: What was ...

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The title alone of Hector Berlioz’s most famous orchestral work is enough to send a frisson of excitement down the spine. Add to that evocative title the composer's own decadent narrative of an ...

A work of opulent orchestral colors and effects that tells a “fantastic” story, starring Hector Berlioz himself, besotted with a Shakespearian actress. His passion-propelled Symphonie Fantastique ...

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Bloomington Symphony Orchestra's spring program will whirl attendees through Paris in a nontraditional eddy of obsessive, unrequited love and boundary-bashing harmonies. Two programmatic (written to ...

Jason Miller freely admits he wants to "trick" his audiences into coming to an Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra performance. But it's for all the right reasons, Miller, the APO's executive director, ...

Puppeteer Basil Twist's 1998 "Symphonie Fantastique" is back in a larger production at a new theatre, the opening offering of the new 199-seat theatre at Dodger Stages. This time, the magical mystery ...