Archive of performances of Berlioz’s music around the world
The table below lists the performances in chronological order.
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4 August 2012 10.30am |
Symphonie fantastique Tanglewood Festival 2012 |
Tanglewood Shed, Lenox, MA, USA Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor: Lorin Maazel |
4 August 2012 9.30pm |
Veni Creator | Cappella del Rosario, Basilica di
San Domenico, Bologna, Italy Coro femminile del Teatro Comunale di Bologna director: Lorenzo Fratini Mario Benotto (harmonium) |
5 August 2012 2.30pm |
Symphonie fantastique Tanglewood Festival 2011 |
Tanglewood Shed, Lenox, MA, USA Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor: Lorin Maazel |
5 August 2012 3.00pm |
Grande Messe des morts (Requiem)*
L’Adieu des bergers à la sainte famille** |
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA, USA Finger Lakes Choral Festival (director: Adrian G. Horn) San Francisco Lyric Chorus (director: Robert Gurney) Redwood Symphony Dan McInerney (tenor) conductors: Eric Kujawsky* and Robert Gurney** |
5 August 2012 3.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique | Brevard Music Center, Brevard, North Carolina,
USA Brevard Music Center Orchestra conductor: Keith Lockhart |
8 August 2012 8.30pm |
Works unspecified concert includes also music by Tchaikovsky, Bizet, Verdi, Wagner, Massenet, Kurt Weill, Félix Leclerc and John Williams Open air concert |
Place de l’Assemblée-Nationale,
Québec, Canada Orchestre symphonique de Québec conductor: Fabien Gabel |
11 August 2012 7.30pm Proms Plus Intro: 5.45pm, at the Royal College of Music Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 |
Grande Messe des morts (Requiem) BBC Proms |
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK BBC National Chorus of Wales Huddersfield Choral Society London Symphony Chorus BBC National Orchestra of Wales conductor: Thierry Fischer Toby Spence (tenor) |
13 August 2012 8.00pm |
Les Nuits d’été Edinburgh International Festival 2012 |
Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Scottish Chamber Orchestra conductor: Sir Roger Norrington Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo- soprano) |
15 August 2012 11.00am |
Messe Solennelle Salzburg Festival |
Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria Vienna Philharmonic Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus conductor: Riccardo Muti chorus master: Ernst Raffelsberger Julia Kleiter (soprano) Saimir Pirgu (tenor) Ildar Abdrazakov (bass) |
16 August 2012 9.00pm |
Messe Solennelle Salzburg Festival |
Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria Vienna Philharmonic Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus conductor: Riccardo Muti chorus master: Ernst Raffelsberger Julia Kleiter (soprano) Saimir Pirgu (tenor) Ildar Abdrazakov (bass) |
17 August 2012 11.00am |
Messe Solennelle Salzburg Festival |
Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria Vienna Philharmonic Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus conductor: Riccardo Muti chorus master: Ernst Raffelsberger Julia Kleiter (soprano) Saimir Pirgu (tenor) Ildar Abdrazakov (bass) |
18 August 2012 7.30pm |
Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict Merola Grand Finale Concert |
War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, USA San Francisco Opera orchestra conductor: Nicholas McGegan |
19 August 2012 10.00am |
Lélio ou Le retour à la vie Berlioz/ arr. Saint-Saëns (1855) Bard Music Festival |
Olin Hall, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,
NY, USA Bard Festival Chamber Players Bard Festival Chorale conductor: James Bagwell commentary by Daniel Goldmark; with: David Strathairn (narrator) Paul Appleby (tenor) Jon-Michael Ball (tenor) Andrew Garland (baritone) Blair McMillen (piano) |
23 August 2012 8.30pm |
Overture Le Carnaval romain Invito all Festa |
Auditorium di Milano Fondazione
Cariplo, Milan, Italy Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi conductor: Maurizio Billi |
23 August 2012 9.00pm |
Overture Le Carnaval romain Les Nuits d’été Symphonie fantastique Festival Berlioz |
Château Louis XI, La Côte Saint-André,
France Orchestre National de Lille conductor: Jean-Claude Casadesus Isabelle Duret (mezzo-soprano) |
24 August 2012 9.00pm |
Overture Le Carnaval romain Festival de La Chaise-Dieu |
Abbatiale Saint-Robert, La Chaise-Dieu,
France Orchestre National de Lille conductor: Jean-Claude Casadesus |
24 August 2012 9.00pm |
Overture Le Corsaire Festival Berlioz |
Château Louis XI, La Côte Saint-André,
France Orchestre National de Lyon conductor: Bruno Mantovani |
26 August 2012 9.00pm |
Symphonie funèbre et triomphale Festival Berlioz |
Château Louis XI, La Côte Saint-André,
France Banda Nazionale dell’ Esercito conductor: Fulvio Creux |
30 August 2012 5.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique (transcription for two pianos) Festival Berlioz |
Église, La Côte Saint-André,
France Jean-François Heisser (piano) Marie-Joséphe Jude (piano) |
30 August 2012 7.00pm |
Rêverie et Caprice | City Recital Hall, Sydney, Australia Sydney Symphony Orchestra Dene Olding: violin-director |
30 August 2012 8.00pm |
Overture Le Carnaval romain | Kulturhaus Gotha, Gotha, Germany Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha conductor: Stefanos Tsialis |
30 August 2012 9.00pm |
Overture to Benvenuto Cellini Cléopatre Festival Berlioz |
Château Louis XI, La Côte Saint-André,
France Orchestre National de Lorraine conductor: Jacques Mercier Anna-Caterina Antonacci (soprano) |
31 August 2012 9.00pm See review by P.-R. Serna (in French) |
Harold en Italie Festival Berlioz |
Château Louis XI, La Côte Saint-André,
France Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg conductor: Alain Altinoglu Renaud Capuçon (viola |