Listeners can still marvel at the massive spectacle of instruments and the music’s storyline that evolves into crazed, ...

Why is it human nature to want what we can’t have? In 1827, the 23-year-old Hector Berlioz attended a performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Odéon Theatre in Paris; Harriet Smithson, a charismatic ...

It’s the silly season for classical music and it is likely that more people in Southern California heard a live classical concert this weekend than at any other time of the year. Up at the Hollywood ...

Berlioz's spectacular Symphonie fantastique is truly fantastic, says Jane Jones. I think this really is a fantastic symphony – not only in name. This was the first of four symphonies that Berlioz ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There are a couple of surprises here. The first is the presence of Yuja Wang as solo pianist. Although Olivier ...

This season, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin experimented with programming works by female composers at every performance. Results were mixed. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown Reporting from Berlin In ...

A consortium of more than 20 European space sector companies has been assembled in response to a European Commission (EC) call for tenders. New Symphonie has 22 members from eight European countries, ...

‘Symphonie Fantastique,” Basil Twist’s abstract, wordless 1998 underwater puppet show set to the music of Hector Berlioz, is being revived downtown. Here’s part of what I wrote about it in 2004: “What ...