Hector Berlioz’s “The Damnation of Faust” is an intoxicant, two hours long. It isn’t often performed, which would be reason enough to run to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, where it is being ...

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Once more, the Metropolitan Opera has presented The Damnation of Faust, Berlioz’s work. The last time I saw it at the Met, Olga Borodina was climbing a ladder, looking terribly grim. The great Russian ...

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 ...

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 ...

Berlioz’s compelling take on the Faust legend returns for the first time in a decade, with an ideal lineup of stars. High-flying tenors Bryan Hymel and Michael Spyres sing the doomed and besotted ...

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 ...

Georg Solti ended his 20th season as music director of the Chicago Symphony, and the orchestra`s 98th season, Thursday night with one of the works central to his Chicago career, Berlioz`s ”The ...