Berlioz 150: Les Troyens and Benvenuto Cellini

Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts Berlioz at the BBC Proms

By Mark Pullinger, 19 February 2019

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“there’s an absolute masterpiece in there that has to be dug out like a pearl from an oyster”

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Berlioz 150: Sir John Eliot Gardiner on Les Troyens and Benvenuto Cellini