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 ...

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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 ...

He may not have the title role in Berlioz's "Damnation of Faust," but it's awfully hard to keep Mephistopheles -- that suave, ironical seducer -- from shamelessly stealing the spotlight. And when the ...

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 ...

Herbert Berlioz was not a man to fear innovation. Although today considered the musical equivalent of the painter Eugène Delacroix and the novelist Victor Hugo, both fellow masters of French ...

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 ...

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ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — Joshua Blue is made for French Romantic opera. The tenor’s ringing bell of a voice softened the consonants and enveloped the vowels in ways no other language would allow, ...

The musical and formal prodigality the composer drew in 1846 from a beloved French translation (by Gerald de Nerval) of Goethe’s Faust: Part 1 dooms every effort to refit the piece as a conventional ...