Hector Berlioz News

Join the Hershey Symphony Orchestra and Maestra Sandra Dackow for “Italian Accents,” a night of gorgeous Italian classics.

The National Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2023–2024 season led by Music Director Gianandrea Noseda and incoming Executive Director Jean Davidson.

South Florida Symphony Orchestra will present a passionate evening of masterworks from Brahms, Sibelius and Berlioz on Wednesday, February 15, at 7:30 p.m., at The Parker in Fort Lauderdale and on Saturday, February 18, at 7:30 p.m., at Tennessee Williams Theatre at The College of the Florida Keys in Key West.

New York Festival of Song, led by Artistic Director Steven Blier, will continue its 2022-2023 season with Amor on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 8:00pm at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center.

San Diego Opera's 2022-2023 Season continues with The Puccini Duo: a double-bill of the tragic Suor Angelica and the witty comic opera Gianni Schicchi on Saturday, February 11, 2023 at the San Diego Civic Theatre for four performances. Additional performances are February 14, 17, and 19 (matinee), 2023. All evening performances take place at 7:30 PM, matinees at 2 PM.

California Symphony announces the World Premiere of the third and final commission for California Symphony by Young American Composer-in-Residence Viet Cuong (2020-2023) will be a piano concerto (title TBD), to be performed May 20–21, 2023 in Fresh Inspirations, the orchestra's momentous season finale concert. It was further announced this new work will feature nationally acclaimed pianist Sarah Cahill as the guest soloist.

San Diego Opera's 2022-2023 Season continues with The Puccini Duo: a double-bill of the tragic Suor Angelica and the witty comic opera Gianni Schicchi on Saturday, February 11, 2023 at the San Diego Civic Theatre for four performances.

New Jersey-based professional training orchestra Symphony in C will present Fantastic French on Saturday, January 21, 2023 at 8:00pm. Held at the Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts in Camden, New Jersey, the concert features Israeli guest conductor Noam Aviel, who will lead the Symphony in an evening of all-French music.

What includes a taste of Italy's vibrant dance scene and a new, contemporary spin on the classic ballet The Nutcracker? That would be Dance NOW! Miami's Program I, on Saturday, December 10, when this leading Florida ensemble world premieres their new piece Clara and share the stage with Compagnia Opus Ballet, direct from Florence for their U.S. debut. Taking place at the Miami Theater Center in Miami Shores, the evening will be an unusual – and racy – season performance.

National Philharmonic (NatPhil) presents the 2022-2023 debut of the National Philharmonic Chorale in Louis-Hector Berlioz's Requiem. The program also celebrates conductor Stan Engebretson's storied tenure as Artistic Director of the Chorale. Berlioz Requiem is being presented for one night only at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 12 at Strathmore.

San Francisco Opera presents Christoph Willibald Gluck's eighteenth-century masterwork Orpheus and Eurydice (Orfeo ed Euridice) from November 15–December 1.

Streaming the First Century, San Francisco Opera's free online hub for historic recordings and interviews, expanded today with the release of Session 2: “Parlez-vous français?”

The Orchestra Now, the visionary orchestra and master’s degree program founded by Bard College president, conductor, educator, and music historian Leon Botstein, returns to the stage for its eighth season on September 10, 2022.

National Philharmonic (NatPhil) launches its 2022–2023 Concert Season with three programs in October and November: two classical concerts led by Music Director Piotr Gajewski and Artistic Director of the National Philharmonic Chorale Stan Engebretson, and one pops concert led by Principal Pops Conductor Luke Frazier.

Wolfgang Koch, who was supposed to sing the part of the Grandier, unfortunately had to cancel the premiere due to illness. The opera Die Teufel von Loudun has been performed only a few times since its first performance, which made the search for singers who had the role in their repertoire difficult.

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Boston Landmarks Orchestra, under the direction of Music Director Christopher Wilkins, will bring its annual summer series of free, live orchestral concerts to the iconic DCR Hatch Memorial Shell on the Esplanade, with a special focus on concerts in East Boston, Chelsea, Roxbury, and Mattapan.

Select Spring Pops 2022, Tanglewood 2022, and Archival Pops and Tanglewood Programs are available for video-On-Demand viewing at BSO.ORG/NOW from June 23 through September 30 and can be viewed on the web and via Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and Select Samsung Smart TVs

In a rare event for London, St Paul's Cathedral will be transformed into a spectacular concert hall for Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra on Thursday 23 June 2022.

During the 2017–18 season, the mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes performed at La Monnaie both in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites in the role of Mère Marie and in a recital programme. In 2022, she returns to play Valentine in Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots and to present a more intimate programme devoted to French mélodie.