Archive of performances of Berlioz’s music around the world
The table below lists the performances in chronological order.
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1 August 2010 6.30pm Live broadcast on BBC Radio 3; available on demand for 7 days |
Scène d’amour (from Roméo et Juliette) BBC Proms |
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conductor: Sir Simon Rattle |
3 August 2010 9.00pm |
Mélodies (unspecified) [probably Villanelle and Le Spectre de la rose, from Les Nuits d’été] |
Abbaye de Cendras, Cendras,
France Roger Pujol (tenor) Thierry Jam (piano) |
4 August 2010 8.00pm |
Roméo et Juliette (excerpts) | Festspielhaus, Baden Baden, Germany Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conductor: Sir Simon Rattle |
4 August 2010 7.30pm |
Symphonie fantastique | Birmingham Symphony Hall, Birmingham, UK National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain conductor: Semyon Bychkov |
5 August 2010 7.30pm |
Symphonie fantastique | Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, UK National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain conductor: Semyon Bychkov |
7 August 2010 7.30pm Live broadcast on BBC Radio 3; available on demand for 7 days Recorded by BBC2 TV for transmission on 21 August |
Symphonie fantastique BBC Proms |
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain conductor: Semyon Bychkov |
7 August 2010 8.00pm |
Harold en Italie Musik-Sommer 2010 |
Wolkenturm, Schloss Grafenegg, Grafenegg, Austria European Union Youth Orchestra conductor: Matthias Bamert Maxim Rysanov (viola) For health reasons Sir Colin Davis withdrew from this concert, Matthias Bamert conducted it instead. |
8 August 2010 4.00pm |
Les Nuits d’été A programme of chant and dance; also includes music by Prokofiev and Stravinsky “Ballets russes et Nuits d’été” |
Musée d’Art
Sacré Contemporain , Saint-Hugues-de-Chartreuse, France Ensemble Carpe Diem Simon Bailly (dance) Anne-Emmanuel Davg (chant) Manuel Metzger (clarinet) Jean-Pierre Arnaud (oboe and cor anglais) Laurène Durantel (bass) |
8 August 2010 7.30pm |
Rêverie et caprice “From the Earth to the Stars” |
Theater, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Lake Placid,
NY, USA Lake Placid Sinfonietta conductor: Ron Spigelman Daniel Szasz: violin soloist |
9 August 2010 6.30pm |
Symphonie fantastique | Sun Valley Pavilion, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA Sun Valley Summer Symphony conductor: Alasdair Neale |
9 August 2010 7.00pm Live broadcast on BBC Radio 3; available on demand for 7 days |
Harold en Italie BBC Proms |
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK European Union Youth Orchestra conductor: Matthias Bamert Maxim Rysanov (viola) For health reasons Sir Colin Davis withdrew from this concert, Matthias Bamert conducted it instead. |
9 August 2010 8.00pm |
Roméo et Juliette Quincena Musical de San Sebastián |
Kursaal Auditorium, San Sebastián, Spain Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra Orfeón Donostiarra conductor: Valery Gergiev soloists from Saint Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre choir conductor: J. A. Sáinz Alfaro |
10 August 2010 5.30pm |
Harold en Italie (Liszt transcription) Festival Pablo Casals de Prades “De Varsovie à Paris” [from Warsaw to Paris] |
Église, Mosset, France Jeremy Menuhin (piano) Nobuko Imaï (viola) |
12 August 2010 6.00pm |
Le Spectre de la rose (from Les Nuits d’été) | Chapelle des pénitents
blancs, Menton, France Philippe Riga (piano) Anne-Fleur Inizan (mezzo soprano) |
12 August 2010 7.30pm Live broadcast on BBC Radio 3; available on demand for 7 days |
Overture Le Corsaire BBC Proms |
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor: Lionel Bringuier |
13 August 2010 9.00pm |
Works unspecified | Église Saint-Guy, Damvix,
France La famille Bardon (a family ensemble of over 30 professional musicians) |
15 August 2010 6.30pm |
Overture Le Carnaval romain Hornucopia |
Sun Valley Pavilion, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA French horn section of the Sun Valley Summer Symphony and 11 additional horn players conductor was not announced |
15 August 2010 9.00pm |
Works unspecified | Église Notre-Dame, Fontenay,
France La famille Bardon (a family ensemble of over 30 professional musicians) |
18 August 2010 9.00pm |
Mélodies (unspecified) [probably Villanelle and Le Spectre de la rose, from Les Nuits d’été] Festival de Piano |
Monastère de Saorge, Saorge,
France Roger Pujol (tenor) Thierry Jam (piano) |
18 August 2010 9.00pm |
Overture Le Carnaval romain Cléopâtre Harold en Italie Festival Berlioz |
Château, La Côte
Saint-André, France Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble conductor: Marc Minkowski Mireille Delunsch (soprano) Lise Berthaud (viola) |
19 August 2010 9.00pm |
Overture to Benvenuto Cellini Festival Berlioz |
Château Louis XI, La Côte
Saint-André, France Orchestre Les Siècles conductor: François-Xavier Roth |
21 August 2010 9.00pm |
Les Nuit d’été Festival Berlioz |
Château Louis XI, La Côte
Saint-André, France European Camerata Nathalie Stutzmann (alto) |
22 August 2010 9.00pm |
L’Enfance du Christ Festival Berlioz |
Château Louis XI, La Côte
Saint-André, France Orchestre National de Lyon Les Chœurs de Lyon - Bernard Tétu Chœur Emelthée conductor : Serge Baudo Le Récitant : Sébastien Droy Marie : Marie-Claude Chappuis Joseph : Olivier Lallouette Hérode : Renaud Delaigue Le père de famille: Markus Hollop |
23 August 2010 7.30pm Live broadcast on BBC Radio 3; available on demand for 7 days |
Les Nuits d’été BBC Proms |
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK Svenska Kammarorkestern [Swedish Chamber Orchestra] conductor: Thomas Dausgaard Nina Stemme (soprano) |
25 August 2010 9.00pm |
Overture Le Corsaire Festival Berlioz |
Château Louis XI, La Côte
Saint-André, France Orchestre Génération Symphonique conductor: Daniel Kawka |
26 August 2010 9.00pm |
Rêverie et caprice Festival Berlioz |
Château Louis XI, La Côte
Saint-André, France Orchestre des Pays de Savoie conductor: Nicolas Chalvin Naoko Ogihara (violin) |
26 August
2010 9.00pm |
“Roméo et Juliette” Maurice Béjart’s ballet created in 1966 set to Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette Verona Festival |
Teatro Romano, Verona, Italy Malandain Ballet Biarritz choreography: Thierry Malandain decor and costumes: Jorge Gallardo direction, conception and lightings: Jean-Claude Asquié |
27 August 2010 7.30pm |
Overture Le Carnaval romain | The Cathedral and Abbey Church of Saint Alban, St
Albans, UK Hertfordshire County Youth Orchestra conductor: Peter Stark |
27 August
2010 9.00pm |
“Roméo et Juliette” Maurice Béjart’s ballet created in 1966 set to Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette Verona Festival |
Teatro Romano, Verona, Italy Malandain Ballet Biarritz choreography: Thierry Malandain decor and costumes: Jorge Gallardo direction, conception and lightings: Jean-Claude Asquié |
28 August 2010 5.00pm |
Mélodies (unspecified) Festival Berlioz |
Église, La Côte
Saint-André, France Ensemble TM+ conductor: Laurent Cuniot Sylvia Vadimova (mezzo- soprano) |
28 August 2010 8.30pm |
Les Nuits d’été Salzburg Festival 2010 |
Haus für Mozart,
Salzburg, Austria Svenska Kammarorkestern [Swedish Chamber Orchestra] conductor: Thomas Dausgaard Nina Stemme (soprano) |
28 August 2010 9.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique concert also includes Envers Symphonie by Philippe Leroux, commissioned by Festival Berlioz, inspired by Symphonie fantastique Festival Berlioz |
Château Louis XI, La Côte
Saint-André, France Orchestre National de Lorraine conductor: Jacques Mercier |
28 August
2010 9.00pm |
“Roméo et Juliette” Maurice Béjart’s ballet created in 1966 set to Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette Verona Festival |
Teatro Romano, Verona, Italy Malandain Ballet Biarritz choreography: Thierry Malandain decor and costumes: Jorge Gallardo direction, conception and lightings: Jean-Claude Asquié |
29 August 2010 5.00pm Read two reviews of this concert by Pierre-René Serna and Christian Wasselin (both in French) |
Symphonie funèbre et triomphale Festival Berlioz |
Église, Bourgoin-Jallieu,
France European Brass Orchestra (Orchestre Européen des Cuivres): Belgian Brass, Epsilon Brass, Mnozil Brass, Penta Brass, Spanish Brass conductor: Sylvain Cambreling |
29 August 2010 9.00pm Read two reviews of this concert by Pierre-René Serna and Christian Wasselin (both in French) |
Waverley Overture Te deum Festival Berlioz |
Château Louis XI, La Côte
Saint-André, France Orchestre Européen Hector Berlioz Les Chœurs de Lyon – Bernard Tétu conductor: François-Xavier Roth Philippe Brandeis (organ) |