Berlioz’s Birthplace – La Côte Saint-André

Festival Berlioz

The Festival Berlioz 2008 will take place from 19 August to 1 September. As always, a mixture of works by Berlioz and other composers are included in the music programme of the Festival. Here is the list of works by Berlioz included in the Festival’s programme:

21August Marche Hongroise (from La Damnation de Faust)
Symphonie fantastique
22 August Harold en Italie
23 August afternoon: Rêverie et caprice (afternoon)
evening: Grande Messe des morts (Requiem)
24 August afternoon:
Premiers transports (from Roméo et Juliette)
La Belle Voyageuse
Chanson à boire
L’origine de la Harpe
Chant sacré

evening:
Le Voyage d’hiver
Paris - Saint-Pétersbourg - Moscou

including music by Berlioz, Liszt, Rachmaninov,
Mussorgsky, Moszkowski, Scriabin

Le Voyage d’hiver tells the story of Berlioz’s travels Russia
26 August Ballets Russes and Les Nuits d’été

L’île inconnue, Sur les lagunes, Absence, Villanelle, 
Au cimetière, Le Spectre de la rose,
and music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky
30 August La Damnation de Faust
1 September La Fuite en Egypte (from L’Enfance du Christ)

For further details see Forthcoming Concerts – France.

Visit also the Festival’s own site at: www.festivalberlioz.com/

Address:

Festival Berlioz
38, Place de la Halle – BP 64, 38260 La Côte Saint-André
Tel. : 04 74 20 31 37
Fax : 04 74 20 25 45
www.festivalberlioz.com

© 2008 Michel Austin and Monir Tayeb. All rights of reproduction reserved.

Back to La Côte Saint-André main page