We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Music news every morning. Narbal and Anna, staff members at a centre for traumatised war victims, discuss the growing love between Didon ...

Berlioz’s Shakespearean opera is stripped to the bone for four instruments and six singers, but the show is slick and spirited, with sopranos Lorena Paz Nieto and Monica McGhee standouts Hector ...

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, ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

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 ...

A gorgeous new recoding of Berlioz's DAMNATION DE FAUST, on the Erato label, has come my way and it is well-worth investigating. The work has entered the public consciousness with the recent revival ...

Ancient Roman Swag Sells, the Smithsonian’s Shunned, and Your Art Critic Visits Cornell From Monster to Martyr Digger Is Not What You Think Decency and Hard Work in ...

He revived interest in a “problem child” in the pantheon of high romantic composers, bringing Berlioz overdue recognition as one of France’s greatest composers. By Adam Nossiter The Romantic-era ...

One hundred and fifty years after his death, Berlioz’s music is finally getting the audience it deserves. Why has it taken so long to be loved? The verdict on the composer Hector Berlioz when he died ...

Hector Berlioz described Beatrice and Benedict as "a caprice written with the point of a needle." Houston Grand Opera's first production of the composer's final work (its first staging of any of his ...