‘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 ...

Hector Berlioz’s “The Damnation of Faust” is an intoxicant, two hours long. It isn’t often performed, which would be reason enough to run to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, where it is being ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marking the 150th anniversary of the death of French composer Hector Berlioz, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonic Chorus of Tokyo performed his La Damnation de Faust (The Damnation of ...

Conventional and moderate he was not, in life as in art, and so it is with Hector Berlioz' musical rendition of the Faust myth, which explodes all conventions and genres. Berlioz initially called his ...

What happens when you take three parts Hector Berlioz, mix it with one part Edvard Munch, two parts Heironymous Bosch, add a dash of Edward Gorey (for grim humor) and spread the mixture thickly over ...

From the archive, 17 February 1848: The Observer reviews Hector Berlioz conducting his orchestra at the Drury Lane theatre The past week at Drury-lane Theatre has been fertile in events of a very ...

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 ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...