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La Fura dels Baus, the troupe of experimental director Carlus Padrissa, is renowned for its innovative approach and juxtaposition of styles.

Myung-Whun Chung and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. They will present Ravel and Berlioz at the Emirates Palace as part of the Abu Dhabi Classics season on Friday.

With a bright young American subbing on the podium, and an off-beat bill of fare capped by a jazzy piano concerto, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's concert Thursday night turned out to be a refreshing delight.

One doesn't have to look far to find connections among the composers Berlioz, Wagner, and Mahler, featured in the concert performed by the West Virginia Symphony Friday night at the Clay Center.

More than half a century ago, Covent Garden's landmark 1957 staging removed any doubt that Berlioz's "Les Troyens" deserved a place on the opera stage.

Dec. 5 through 7, the Monterey Symphony will present an entire program devoted to music from French operas.

Robert Lepage has elevated the Metropolitan Opera's La Damnation de Faust to a new level--four of them, actually.

" under conductor and host Michael Tilson Thomas -- has recently released the second season of its " Keeping Score " public television, radio, and internet-based multi-media programming - " this season launching hour-long programs focusing on three great composers and three great works of classical symphonic music - " Hector Berlioz and his ...

The Eastern Michigan University Symphony Orchestra will bewitch audiences with the 12th installment of its annual Halloween Concert tomorrow at 7 p.m. in Pease Auditorium.

From top, Olga Borodina, Ramon Vargas and Ildar Abdrazakov in "La Damnation de Faust." Blog ArtsBeat The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more.

Shortly before 10am on September 16, Alan Gilbert quietly wove his way through the New York Philharmonic's musicians, who were assembling on stage for an open rehearsal at the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.

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FOR the Edinburgh Royal Choral Union , misfortune has turned in its favour. Like so many other users of the Usher Hall over the past few years, the 100-strong choir has had its plans thwarted time and again as successive deadlines to finish the refurbishment programme failed to be met.

The Fox Valley Symphony's 2009-10 season, featuring selections that executive director Marta Weldon calls the 'meat and potatoes' comfort food of classical music, opens Saturday with a concert of Copland, Chopin and Beethoven.

The Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra opened its 15th season Saturday night in Aquinas Hall at Mount Saint Mary College in celebration of the college's 50th anniversary.

Just last Wednesday, a few hours before he was to take up the baton for the gala first night of his first full season at the New York Philharmonic , Alan Gilbert , the orchestra's 42-year-old conductor, came offstage, ducked into his suite at Lincoln Center and, opening a bottle of Poland Spring, dropped down onto his month-old, royal blue, ...

The North Carolina Symphony opens its 2009-10 Southern Pines Classical Series with a performance of Tragic Heroes on Thursday, Oct.

'Gutsy writing . . . inventive use of color . . . unusual instruments . . . still pretty unique." Those musical descriptions from Philadelphia composer Jennifer Higdon suggest a critique of Berlioz, Debussy, or some other classical composer with Mount Rushmore status.