World Premiere: Opéra-Comique, Paris, 1846. Berlioz’s magnificent exploration of the Faust legend is a unique operatic journey. The visionary French composer was inspired by a bold translation of ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Saturday afternoon saw the return of Berlioz's DAMNATION OF FAUST to the ...

Berlioz’s compelling take on the Faust legend returns to The Met for the first time in a decade, with an ideal line-up of stars. Tenor Michael Spyres is the doomed and besotted Faust, opposite ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. A gorgeous new recoding of Berlioz's DAMNATION DE FAUST, on the Erato label ...

He was in his 20s then, having just quit medical school when the autopsies proved traumatic and his drive toward music won out over his physician father’s insistences. Then, he wrote eight small ...

Opera? Cantata? “Opéra de concert”? One of the defining Romantic composers of the 19th century, Hector Berlioz gave “Damnation of Faust” audiences a work that even today defies categorization. Not ...

A celebration of Hector Berlioz and a trip to the Adelaide Festival for The Magic Flute and a recital by Susan Graham. Opera Australia presents Strauss's Salome. Hector Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, ...

And the Romantic movement in which Berlioz played such a turbulent part is already in its decadence by the time of this operatic Faust's first misadventures, at odds among the turbulent Volk who ...

Robert Lepage has elevated the Metropolitan Opera’s La Damnation de Faust to a new level–four of them, actually. The set, introduced last year and revived this season, is four stories partitioned off ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is the big works that make the impact in marking a composer’s anniversary, and the 150th anniversary of ...