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 ...

World Premiere: Opéra-Comique, Paris, 1846. Berlioz’s magnificent exploration of the Faust legend is a unique operatic journey. The visionary French composer was inspired by a bold translation of ...

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 ...

BOSTON - How much would you sell your soul for to the Devil? For all the money in the world? For ultimate power? Eternal life? Fame and fortune? Or maybe for the heart of the first beautiful woman you ...

‘This marvellous book fascinated me from the first; I could not put it down’: Hector Berlioz’s first encounter with Goethe’s Faust I immediately inspired the 25-year-old composer to write settings for ...

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 ...

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, ...

And the Romantic movement in which Berlioz played such a turbulent part is already in its decadence by the time of this operatic Faust's first misadventures, at odds among the turbulent Volk who ...

Robert Lepage has elevated the Metropolitan Opera’s La Damnation de Faust to a new level–four of them, actually. The set, introduced last year and revived this season, is four stories partitioned off ...