Event listing: Morlot Conducts Berlioz | Benaroya Hall, S Mark Taper Auditorium | Event is in the past

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Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique: The demon symphony

Bachtrack, 16th April

Gareth Davies, Principal Flute of the London Symphony Orchestra, talks about the furious scramble to keep up with Colin Davis performing Berlioz’s great hallucinatory symphony.

Voyages into the unknown: Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été

Mark Pullinger, 25th February

The background to Berlioz' great song cycle Les Nuits d’été with a musical analysis and playlist

Berlioz 150: The Amazing Fantastique

Sir Roger Norrington, 4th February

Sir Roger Norrington explores the history of “the first truly Romantic score in history” and recounts his experiences performing it.

The story of Symphonie Fantastique

Danny Riley, 4th September

Berlioz had a rather trying time while he was composing Symphonie fantastique. Here, we take a look at his amorous obsessions.

See Les Nuits d'été, Op.7 in

Tokyo, Japan Paris, France Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Fantastical Berlioz with the Seattle Symphony

Erica Miner, 4th November

Both of these works are united in their depiction of love gained and lost, and embodied Berlioz’s take on love and music, which the composer called, “the two wings of the soul”.

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