Forthcoming performances of Berlioz’s music around the world

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The table below lists the performances in chronological order. 

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France

2 July 2008
9.00pm
Les Nuits d’été

 


Musique Festiv’en Entre deux Mers
7th edition

Château des Ducs d’Épernon, Cadillac

admission free

No other information available

Contact: 05 56 67 03 42 and www.galaxyart.net

18 July 2008
9.00pm
Les Nuits d’été Eglise Notre Dame de l’Assomption, La Grave
Mireille Delunsch (soprano)
Michel Béroff (piano)
21 August 2008
6.30pm
Marche Hongroise (from La Damnation de Faust)
Symphonie fantastique

 

 

Festival Berlioz 2008

Les Halles, La Côte Saint-André
Ensemble à Vent de l’Isère
La Société Philharmonique de La Côte-Saint-André
conductors: VillevièreEric, and a trainee conductor

admission free

Further information: www.festivalberlioz.com

22 August 2008
9.00pm
Harold en Italie

 


Festival Berlioz 2008

Château Louis XI, La Côte Saint-André
Les musiciens du Louvre - Grenoble
conductor:Marc Minkowski
Gérard Caussé (viola)

Further information: www.festivalberlioz.com

23 August 2008
4.00pm
Rêverie et caprice

 

Festival Berlioz 2008

Église du Mottier, La Côte Saint-André
Caroline Sageman (piano)
Jean Ferrandis (flute)

Further information: www.festivalberlioz.com

23 August 2008
9.00pm
Grande Messe des morts
(Requiem)

 

Festival Berlioz 2008

Château Louis XI, La Côte Saint-André
conductor: Mykola Dyadura
chorus master: Evhen Savchouk
Florian Laconi (tenor)

orchestra and chorus to be announced

24 August 2008
4.00pm
Premiers transports (from Roméo et Juliette)
La Belle Voyageuse
Chanson à boire
Lorigine de la Harpe
Chant sacré

 

Festival Berlioz 2008

Église de Marnans, Marnans
Ensemble vocal Berlioz
Sophie Calmel (soprano)
Sabine Hwang (mezzo-soprano)
Eric Chorier (tenor)
Philippe Bergère (bass)
Laurent Touche (piano)

Further information: www.festivalberlioz.com

24 August 2008
9.00pm
Le Voyage dhiver
Paris – Saint-Pétersbourg – Moscou

Poetry accompanied by music from Berlioz, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky, Moszkowski, Scriabin

Le Voyage d’hiver tells the story of 
Berlioz’s travels to Russia

Festival Berlioz 2008

Château Louis XI, La Côte Saint-André
Alain Carré: récitant
François-René Duchâble (piano)

 

 


Further information: www.festivalberlioz.com

25 August 2008
9.00pm

26 August 2008
2.30pm

27 August 2008
2.30pm

Grande Messe des morts
(Requiem)

 

 

 

Festival de la Chaise-Dieu 2008

Abbatiale Saint-Robert, La Chaise-Dieu, Le Puy-en-Velay
Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine
Dumka Chorus of Ukraine
conductor: Mykola Dyadura
Florian Laconi (tenor)

 


Further information: http://www.chaise-dieu.com

26 August 2008
9.00pm
Ballets Russes et Les Nuits d’été

L’île inconnue
Sur les lagunes
Absence
Villanelle
Au cimetière
Le Spectre de la rose

including also music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky

Festival Berlioz 2008

Château Louis XI, La Côte Saint-André
Ensemble Carpe Diem
Wilke te Brummelstroete (mezzo-soprano)
Simon Bailly, Gaëtan Jamard, Francesca Vianni (dancers)
Jean-Pierre Arnaud (conception, transcription and direction)
Simon Bailly (choreography)
Romain Guilhot de Lagarde (lighting)
Alexandre Alexeïeff (animation film)

 


Further information: www.festivalberlioz.com

30 August 2008
9.00pm
La Damnation de Faust

 

 


Festival Berlioz 2008

Château Louis XI, La Côte Saint-André
Orchestre et Choeur de l’Opéra National de Lyon
conductor: Emmanuel Krivine
chorus master: Alan Woodbridge
Vinson Cole (Faust)
Katerina Karneus (Marguerite)
Nicolas Testé (Brander)
Lionel Lhote (Méphistophélès)

Further information: www.festivalberlioz.com

1 September 2008
7.00pm

La Fuite en Egypte  
(from L’Enfance du Christ)


« Concert pour la jeunesse et la renaissance »
Festival Berlioz 2008

Château Louis XI, La Côte Saint-André
Orchestre du Festival Berlioz  (without conductor)
with the musicians of the Ensemble Carpe Diem
Svetli Chaumien (tenor)

Further information: www.festivalberlioz.com

12 September 2008
8.30pm
Overture Le Corsaire

 

Festival International de musique de Besançon

Saline Royale, Arc-et-Senans (35 km from Besançon)
Orchestre national de Lyon 
conductor: Darrell Ang

Further information: www.festival-besancon.com/

9 October 2008
8.00pm

pre-concert talk on Les
Nuits d’été
at 6.30
by Jean-Luc Idray

Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict
Les Nuits d’été
Cité de la musique, Paris
La Chambre philharmonique
conductor: Emmanuel Krivine
Karine Deshayes (soprano)

Further information: www.cite-musique.fr

11, 13 October 2008
8.30pm
Overture Le Corsaire Halle aux Grains, Toulouse
Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse
conductor: Tugan Sokhiev

Further information: www.onct.mairie-toulouse.fr

10 December 2008 Symphonie funèbre et triomphale Cathédrale, Chartres
Orchestre de la Garde républicaine
conductor: François Boulanger
11 December 2008 Symphonie funèbre et triomphale Eglise Saint-Louis des Invalides, Paris
Orchestre de la Garde républicaine
conductor: François Boulanger
22 December 2008
8.00pm

pre-projection introduction with Franck Krawczyk at 7.00pm

meeting with François Salès after the projection

“Berlioz grésille dans la poussière d’hiver”

Video creation after La Damnation de Faust

Salle Favart, Opéra-Comique, Paris
producer: François Salès
composer of the sound track: Franck Krawczyk

 

 

Further information: www.opera-comique.com

18 January 2009
4.00pm
Mélodies (unspecified)

also songs by Pauline Viardot, Pier Adolfo Tirindelli, Arturo Toscanini, Henri Bertini, Reynaldo Hahn

Opéra national de Lyon, Lyon
Anna Caterina Antonacci (mezzo-soprano)
Donald Sulzen (piano)

Further information: http://www.opera-lyon.com

28 January 2009
8.00pm
Mélodies (unspecified) Salle Favart, Opéra-Comique, Paris
Natalie Manfrino (soprano)
Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Further information: www.opera-comique.com

5, 7 February 2009
8.00pm
Béatrice et Bénédict

(concert performance)

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris
Orchestre National de France
Choeur de Radio France
conductor: Sir Colin Davis
chorus master: Matthias Brauer
Joyce Di Donato (mezzo-soprano)
To be announced (tenor)
Nathalie Manfrino (soprano)
Elodie Méchain (mezzo-soprano)
Nicolas Cavallier, basse
Christophe Fel (bass)
Jean-Philippe Lafont (baritone)

Further information: http://www.radiofrance.fr

26 February 2009
8.00pm
Épisode de la vie d’un artiste (integrated version)

1. Symphonie fantastique
2. Lélio, ou le Retour à la vie

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées 
and Radio France coproduction

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris
Orchestre National de France
Choeur de Radio France
conductor: Riccardo Muti
chorus master: Matthias Brauer
Gérard Depardieu (récitant)

Further information: http://www.radiofrance.fr

27 February 2009

1 March 2009

L’Enfance du Christ

New production

Opéra de Toulon Provence Mediterranée, Toulon
Orchestr and Chorus of the Opéra de Toulon Provence Mediterranée
producer Frédéric Andrau
costumes: Luc Londiveau
lighting: Ivan Mathis
conductor: to be announced
Avi Klemberg (narrator, a centurion)
Blandine Staskiewicz (Marie)
Thomas Dolié (Joseph, Polydorus)
Paul Gay (Hérode); Jean-Marie Frémeau (père de famille)

Further information: http://www.operadetoulon.fr/

27 March 2009
8.00pm
Symphonie fantastiquer Salle Pleyel, Paris
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
conductor: Myung-Whun Chung

Further information: http://www.radiofrance.fr

28 March 2009
11.00am
Symphonie fantastique Maison de Radio France, Salle Olivier Messiaen, Paris
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
conductor: Myung-Whun Chung

Further information: http://www.radiofrance.fr

3 April 2009
8.00pm
Overture to Benvenuto Cellini Salle Pleyel, Paris
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
conductor: Myung-Whun Chung

Further information: http://www.radiofrance.fr

27 April 2009
8.00pm
Rameau, Gluck, Berlioz – Altre Stelle

Adieu, fière Cité (Didon’s air; from Les Troyens)
Orchestral music (unspecified)

this staged spectacle of favourite vocal and orchestral music also includes works by Rameau and Gluck

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris
Orchestre Les Siècles
conductor: François-Xavier Roth
staging: Juliette Deschamps
decors: Nelson Wilmotte
costumes: Macha Makeïeff
lighting: Dominique Bruguière
Anna Caterina Antonacci (soprano)
29 April 2009
1.00pm
Mélodies (unspecified) Salle Bizet, Opéra-Comique, Paris
Recital in collaboration with the Paris Conservatoire
and Cultures France

Further information: www.opera-comique.com

30 April 2009
8.00pm
Rameau, Gluck, Berlioz – Altre Stelle

Adieu, fière Cité (Didon’s air; from Les Troyens)
Orchestral music (unspecified)

this staged spectacle of favourite vocal and orchestral music also includes works by Rameau and Gluck

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris
Orchestre Les Siècles
conductor: François-Xavier Roth
staging: Juliette Deschamps
decors: Nelson Wilmotte
costumes: Macha Makeïeff
lighting: Dominique Bruguière
Anna Caterina Antonacci (soprano)
4 May 2009
8.00pm
Mélodies, airs and romances (unspecified)

 


1830, Paris

Cité de la musique, Paris
Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor)
Abdel Rahman El Bacha (piano)
Didier Sandre (narrator)

Further information: www.cite-musique.fr

6 May 2009
8.00pm

pre-concert talk on Symphonie fantastique at 6.30 by Sabine Berard

Symphonie fantastique


1830, Paris

Cité de la musique, Paris
Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire de Paris
conductor: Emmanuel Krivine


Further information: www.cite-musique.fr

7 May 2009
8.00pm
Roméo et Juliette (orchestral excerpts) Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris
Orchestre National de France
conductor: Seiji Ozawa

Further information: http://www.radiofrance.fr

19 May 2009
8.00pm
Overture Le Carnaval romain Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor: Jukka-Pekka Saraste

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