This page presents some recent general Berlioz-related news and forthcoming events. For details of performances of Berlioz’s music please see Forthcoming Concerts and Performances.

Please contact us if you wish to share similar information with others.

Acknowledgement

Last update: 6 May 2008

Reprise of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein’s Les Troyens – 2009

The 2005 production of Les Troyens, by Christof Loy (mise en scène), which was reprised in 2007, will be performed in 2009, conducted again by John Fiore. As before, the first two acts (La Prise de Troie) will be performed at the Theater der Stadt Duisburg, and the last three (Les Troyens à Carthage) at the Opernhaus Düsseldorf.. We shall inform you when further information is available.

See the Archive of Concerts for details of the earlier performances.

We are grateful to Mr Harald Janko for this item.

Berlioz at the Kunstfest Weimar 2008

Emmanuel Krivine will conduct the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg in a performance of Harold en Italie on 6 September, with Tabea Zimmermann as soloist. The Hungarian March from La Damnation de Faust will be performed in the Gala Europa concert on 14 September, the last day of the Festival, which starts on 22 August.

Please see Germany in Forthcoming Concerts for more information. You may also like to read about Berlioz’s own concerts in Weimar and his relationship with that city in Berlioz in Weimar.

Berlioz at the XVI International Festival Stars of the White Nights

Benvenuto Cellini (concert performance) and La Damnation de Faust will be performed on 5 and 7 June at the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg.

For further details please see Russia in Forthcoming Concerts.

Benvenuto Cellini at the Staatstehater Nürnberg – 2008-2009 season

New director of the Nürnberg Opera Peter Theiler has announced that Benvenuto Cellini will feature in his first season at the Staatstehater Nürnberg. We shall inform you of further details as and when available.

New recording of Benvenuto Cellini has been released

Sir Colin Davis conducted to concert performances of Benvenuto Cellini at the Barbican Hall, London in June 2007; they were recorded for release on the LSO Live label. The catalogue number is LSO0623. See also Berlioz Discography – Operas for further details.

Berlioz at Festival de la Chaise-Dieu – 2008

The Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine and Dumka Chorus of Ukraine will perform the Grande Messe des morts on 25 and 26 August, with the possibility of a third performance on the 27th. Mykola Dyadura will conduct, with Florian Laconi (tenor). The festival will run from 20 to 31 August.

For further details please France in Forthcoming Concerts. See also the Festival’s website at: http://www.chaise-dieu.com.

Berlioz at Musikwochen Millstatt (Austria) – 2008

Les Nuits d’été will feature at a concert at "Music Week 2008" in Millstatt, given on 13 July. Michael Lessky will conduct the Jungen Philharmonie Wien, with Sophie Marilley (mezzo-soprano) as the soloist.

For further information see Austria in Forthcoming Concerts.

Berlioz at Edinburgh International Festival and BBC Proms – 2008

Gustavo Dudamel will conduct the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in two performances of Symphonie fantastique: in Usher Hall, Edinburgh (12 August) and in Royal Albert Hall, London (13 August).

See also United Kingdom in Forthcoming Concerts.

Festival Berlioz at La Côte Saint-André 2008 – update

The Festival’s programme has been announced. As always, works by many other composers as well as a selection of those by Berlioz are included in the music programme. La Damnation de Faust, Grande Messe des morts, Harold en Italie, and Les Nuits d’été are among Berlioz’s major works featured this year.

Please see our Festival Berlioz page and the Forthcoming Concerts – France for further details. Visit also the Festival’s own site at: www.festivalberlioz.com/

Béatrice et Bénédict in Paris – update

Sir Colin Davis’s Berlioz cycle with the Orchestre national de France will include Béatrice et Bénédict in the 2008-2009 season. There will be two concert performances at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 5 and 7 February 2009.

Please see France in Forthcoming Concerts for details.

Berlioz at the Met – update

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2008-2009 season will feature a staged production of La Damnation de Faust. It will be based on a production from the Paris Opera, which has sold the Met its sets. The work’s only previous run at the Met was in the 1906-1907 season.

Please see United States in Forthcoming Concerts for details.

The Australian Ballet’s Symphonie Fantastique in Paris

The Australian Ballet will visit Paris in September and October 2008, taking three ballets choreographed in Australia, including Symphonie Fantastique, to the Théâtre du Châtelet. The Symphonie Fantastique was choreographed in Melbourne in 2007 by Krzysztof Pastor. The company will follow their Paris season by a tour of Britain.

See also August, September and October 2007 in our Archive of Concerts.

Voyage musical en Allemagne et en Italie online

An early edition of Berlioz’s Voyage musical en Allemagne et en Italie is now available online (in two volumes) in the Gallica section of the Bibiliothèque national de France. The early editions of some other works by Berlioz have been on Gallica for quite some time.

Forthcoming volumes of Berlioz’s correspondence and musical critiques

Volume IX of Correspondance Générale (under direction of Cécile Reynaud) and volume 6 of Critique musicale, covering 1845-1848 (edited by Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï) are in preparation. We shall inform you of their publication dates as and when available.

Fantastique and Lélio at Ravenna Festival 2008

Riccardo Muti will conduct the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana and the Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor in a single performance of Symphonie fantastique and Lélio ou Le Retour à la vie on 28 June, with Gérard Depardieu, Mario Zeffiri (tenor) and Franck Ferrar (baritone). 

See Italy in Forthcoming Concerts for details.

Berlioz in Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2008-2009 season will include Roméo et Juliette (October 2008), La Damnation de Faust (April and May 2009) and the Requiem (June 2009). Charles Dutoit, who takes the helm of the Philadelphia Orchestra at the start of the season, will conduct Roméo et Juliette and the Requiem; La Damnation de Faust will be conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. During the season, and throughout his four-year tenure, Charles Dutoit will focus on the music of Berlioz and scores composed for the Ballets Russes.

See United States in Forthcoming Concerts for details.

Interview with Sir Colin Davis

An interview by Christopher Lydon of the Radio Open Source recorded on 21 January 2008 is available for download in mp3 format, at:

http://www.radioopensource.org/the-post-imperial-maestro-sir-colin-davis/

Berlioz at Houston Grand Opera – 2008-2009 season

Michael Hofstetter will conduct the Houston Grand Opera in Béatrice et Bénédict in October and November 2008 (five performances starting on 30 October), with Joyce DiDonato (Béatrice), Norman Reinhardt (Bénédict), Ailish Tynan (Hero), Leann Sandel-Pantaleo (Ursule), Ryan McKinny (Don Pedro), Liam Bonner (Claudio), Donald Maxwell (Somarone).

See also United States in Forthcoming Concerts for details.

Te Deum and La Damnation de Faust in London – 2009

Sir Colin Davis will conduct the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in two performances of Te Deum on 22 and 23 February 2009. And, as part of the LSO’s 2009-2010 season, Valery Gergieve will conduct La Damnation de Faust on 22 September 2009.

For further details see United Kingdom in Forthcoming Concerts.

Berlioz at Lucerne Festival 2008

Claudio Abbado will conduct the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in three performances of Symphonie fantastique on 13 August (Opening Gala) and 15 and 16 August.

For further details see Switzerland in Forthcoming Concerts and the Lucerne Festival website.

Berlioz at Blossom Festival 2008

Andrey Boreyko will conduct the Cleveland Orchestra and the Kent/Blossom Chamber Orchestra in a performance of Symphonie fantastique on 20 July at the Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. See also United States in Forthcoming Concerts and www.clevelandorchestra.com.

Les Troyens at Tanglewood Festival 2008 – update

James Levine will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus on 5 (acts I and II) and 6 July (acts III, IV and V). Also as part of the Festival, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Symphonie fantastique on 15 August.

See United States in Forthcoming Concerts for details.

Berlioz music at Olivier Messiaen’s centenary celebrations

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was a devoted admirer of Berlioz’s music, and naturally enough some of the concerts organised to mark the centenary of Messiaen’s birth feature works by Berlioz. Coincidentally, Messiaen was organist for much of his career, from 1931 to 1992, at the Église de la Sainte-Trinité where Berlioz’s funeral took place on 11 March 1869.

For further details see our Forthcoming Concerts and the Archive of Concerts. See also Association Messiaen 2008 for other concerts and events.

Les Troyens in Stuttgart – 2009

The Staatsoper Stuttgart will reprise its 2007 production of Les Troyens in 2009. See October and November 2007 in our Archive of performances for details. Read also a review of the 4th November performance by Pierre-René Serna(in French).

Italian translation of Berlioz’s Voyage en Italie (incorporated in his Mémoires)

Viaggio musicale in Italia, translated by G. Martina, has been published by FBE in Le caravelle series. ISBN 8889160365.

Béatrice et Bénédict in Paris – 2009-2010

Béatrice et Bénédict will feature in the 2009-2010 season of the Opéra-Comique.

Sir Colin Davis will conduct Berlioz’s Requiem in Paris – 2008

In an interview conducted by Pierre-René Serna in Paris on 22 October 2006, Sir Colin said that he will be conducting the Requiem at Saint-Denis Cathedral in June 2008. You can read the complete text of this interview elsewhere on our site, in both French and English versions.

For details of the performance of the Requiem in June 2008 see France in our Forthcoming Performances.

La Damnation de Faust at the Grand Théâtre in Geneva – 2008-2009

The Damnation of Faust will feature in the 2008-2009 season of the Grand Théâtre in Geneva. We shall inform you of further details when available.

Les Troyens at Amsterdam – 2009-2010 season

Les Troyens will feature in 2009-2010 season of the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam. This is Pierre Audi’s production staged at the Nederlandse Opera in October 2003.

La Damnation de Faust at the Metropolitan Opera, New York – 2009-2010

Seiji Ozawa is scheduled to conduct Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust in the 2009-2010 season.

Berlioz at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London – 2010

Berlioz’s epic opera Les Troyens will be staged at the Royal Opera House in 2010; it will be directed by David McVicar. We shall inform you of further details when available.

Les Troyens in Madrid – 2010-2011

Berlioz’s epic opera will feature in the 2010/2011 season of the Teatro Real (Madrid Opera). We shall inform you of further details when available.

Acknowledgement

We would like to express our gratitude to all those who have in the past and at present contributed to this page: Association nationale Hector Berlioz, John Ahouse, Ruth Akers, Association Messiaen 2008, Bernadette Beyne, Peter Bloom, Ilke Boran, Hugues Blunat (of the Orchestre des Gardiens de la Paix de Paris), Gunther Braam, David Cairns, Didier Charton, Jean-Philippe Dartevel, Eric Delcommenne (of the Belgian Post Office), Jean-Michel Desai, Julien Di Tommaso (Director of Compagnie Interlude), Pepijn van Doesburg, Elena Dolenko, M. Daniel Dollé (Deputy Directeur Géneral of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein), Adeline Ducasse, Frédéric Fleurot, Christopher Follett, Misoon Ghim, Thomas Glasow, Robert Goldberg, Keith Gunnar, Gene Halaburt, Frank Heidlberger (Professor of Music Theory), Harald Janko, Diana Jefkins, James Kearney, Craig Kridel, Will Lardinois, Rob Lown, Patrick James Miller, Muriel Mironneau (Directrice de la communication, SeaFrance), Jim Morris, Alison Palmer, Ronald Peterson, Valérien Pitarch, Patricia Pouchulu, Bennett Ramberg, Michel Raynaud, Ellen Reilly, Alain Reynaud (General Secretary of the Association nationale Hector Berlioz), François Sachot (from Théâtre du Chêne Vert), Pierre-René Serna, Larry Simmons, Molly Skardon, Chantal Spillemaecker (Conservateur du Musée Hector-Berlioz), Didi Stewart, Conrad Tobler, Dave Tomlins, Michele Troise, Ralph Unterburg, Steven Van Impe, Mark Vendy, Sue Vernon, Heinz Peter Wacker, Christian Wasselin, Delmar Williams, David Winn, Leo Wong, Michael Wright, John Wrzesien and Douglas Yeo.

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