In 1827, Berlioz saw Harriet Smithson for the first time, playing Ophelia in a production of Hamlet. Hopelessly smitten, he turned his entire life upside down to meet her. Frantic months turned into ...

In music, Franz Liszt was the quintessential Byronic Hero. Like his modifying Romantic namesake, George Gordon (Lord Byron), Liszt was a beautiful, talented, and fundamentally flawed artist. Where ...

Sunday, Nov. 17Inside the Score: Symphonie Fantastique at Bob Carr TheaterPainting of Hector Berlioz by Emile Signol Credit: Emile Signol Orlando Philharmonic music director Eric Jacobsen leads a ...

When the Symphonie fantastique of French composer Hector Berlioz appeared in 1830, no one had ever heard anything quite like it. Beethoven's symphonies (particularly Nos. 3, 5, and 9) announced the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Orchestra’s recording of Hector Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique,” led by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, is now available across all major digital music streaming ...

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 ...

The other day, Arkansas Symphony guest conductor Kazem Abdullah described Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" as "a great barn-burner to end the season with." Well, the orchestra created quite a ...

Ludovic Morlot’s connection to Hector Berlioz goes deep. When he was 12, his parents moved to a house just a few miles from La Côte-Saint-André, the composer’s native village in the southeastern ...