Archive of performances of Berlioz’s music around the world
Classified by date
Year 2016 (July)
The table below lists the performances in chronological order.
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1 July 2016 8.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique Romantic Fantasies |
Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall, Sydney, Australia Sydney Symphony Orchestra conductor: Shiyeon Sung |
1 July 2016 9.00pm |
Les Nuits d’été Centième anniversaire de la bataille de la Somme [Hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Somme] |
Basilique Notre-Dame de Brebières, Albert, Somme, France Orchestre de Picardie conductor: Arie van Beek Barbara Hendricks (soprano) |
2 July 2016 6.00pm |
Veni Creator Adieu des bergers à la Sainte Famille (from L’Enfance du Christ) “Motets romantiques pour la cathédrale d’Aix” Festival Aix-en-baroque |
Chapelle du Sacré-Cœur, Aix-en-Provence, France Grand et petit-chœur Chœur des dames des Festes d’Orphée |
2 July 2016 7.30pm |
Overture Le Corsaire Symphonie fantastique |
St Martin’s Church, London, UK Brent Symphony Orchestra conductor: Levon Parikian |
2 July 2016 8.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique Romantic Fantasies |
Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall, Sydney, Australia Sydney Symphony Orchestra conductor: Shiyeon Sung |
4 July 2016 8.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique Romantic Fantasies |
Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall, Sydney, Australia Sydney Symphony Orchestra conductor: Shiyeon Sung |
7 July 2016 8.30pm |
Symphonie fantastique Lélio, ou retour à la vie |
Auditorium di Milano Fondazione Cariplo, Milan,
Italy Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra:Orchestra sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi conductor: Claus Peter Flor chorus master: Erina Gambarini |
8 July 2016 8.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique Lélio, ou retour à la vie |
Auditorium di Milano Fondazione Cariplo, Milan,
Italy Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra:Orchestra sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi conductor: Claus Peter Flor chorus master: Erina Gambarini |
8 July 2016 8.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique | Cour du château, Chambord, France Jeune Orchestre de l’Abbaye conductor: Marc Minkowski |
9 July 2016 7.30pm |
Les Nuits d ’été Music for all – A Summer Serenade |
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ
the King, Liverpool, UK Orchestra of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral conductor: Stephen Pratt Julia Smith (soprano) |
9 July 2016 7.30pm |
Symphonie fantastique Festival de Saintes |
Abbatiale de l’Abbaye aux Dames, Saintes, France Jeune Orchestre de l’Abbaye conductor: Marc Minkowski |
10 July 2016 4.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique Lélio, ou retour à la vie |
Auditorium di Milano Fondazione Cariplo, Milan,
Italy Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra:Orchestra sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi conductor: Claus Peter Flor chorus master: Erina Gambarini |
12 July 2016 7.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique | Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, St Petersburg, Russia Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra conductor: Eduard Topchjan |
12 July 2016 8.00pm |
Invitation à la valse (Weber; orch. Berlioz) Les Nuits d’été Les Flâneries musicales de Reims |
Basilique Saint-Rémi, Rems, France Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg conductor: Marko Letonja Véronique Gens (soprano) |
12 July 2016 8.00pm Live broadcast on Radio France Musique |
Symphonie fantastique Festival de Radio France et Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon |
Le Corum, Opéra Berlioz, Montpellier, France Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse conductor: Tugan Sokhiev |
12 July 2016 9.00pm |
La Marseillaise | Stade Pierre Mauroy, Lille, France Orchestre nationale de Lille with choristers from the Chœur régional Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Chœur Nicolas de Grigny – Reims, and 4 international singers conductor: Jean Claude Casadesus |
14 July 2016 5.00pm |
Scherzo la Reine Mab (from Roméo et Juliette) Un Bal (from Symphonie fantastique) Les Estivales 2016 |
Théâtre du Peuple, Salle Grande, Bussang, France Le Concert Impromptu (wind quintet) |
14 July 2016 7.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique Nacht und Traum [Night and Dream] Herrenchiemsee Festspiele |
Spiegelsaal, Herrenchiemsee, Germany Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra conductor: Daejin Kim |
15 July 2016 8.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique | Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA MIT Summer Philharmonic Orchestra (MITSPO) conductor: George Ogata |
19 July 2016 6.00pm |
Les Troyens Stars of the Nights Music Festival |
Mariinsky Theatre, Mariinsky II, St Petersburg, Russia Mariinsky Theatre orchestra and chorus conductor: Christian Knapp Énée: Sergei Semishkur Chorèbe: Viktor Korotich Panthée: Nikolai Kamensky Narbal: Askar Abdrazakov Ascagne: Lyudmila Dudinova Cassandre: Anna Markarova Didon: Ekaterina Semenchuk Anna: Zlata Bulycheva Priam: Vladimir Feliauer |
20 July 2016 8.30pm |
Cléopâtre “Shakespeare Songs : Of Love and Madness” Aspen Music Festival |
Harris Concert Hall, Aspen, Colorado, USA soloist from the Aspen Opera Singers Hung-Kuan Chen (piano |
21 July 2016 7.30pm |
Les Nuits d’été | Wigmore Hall, London, UK Elizabeth Watts (soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano) |
21 July 2016 7.30pm pre-concert talk at 6.30pm |
Roméo et Juliette | Liederhalle, Beethoven-Saal, Stuttgart, Germany Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart SWR NDR Chor SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart conductor: Stéphane Denève Clémentine Margaine (mezzo-soprano) Loïc Félix (tenor) Laurent Naouri (bass-baritone) |
21 July 2016 8.00pm |
Scherzo la Reine Mab (from Roméo et Juliette) Un Bal (from Symphonie fantastique) “Nuit d’été …de Shakespeare à Berlioz” Ars Terra 2016 |
Église Saint-Wulphy, Rue, Somme, France Le Concert Impromptu (wind quintet) |
22 July 2016 7.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique Verbier Festival - Opening Concert |
Salle des Combins, Verbier, Switzerland Verbier Festival Orchestra conductor: Charles Dutoit |
22 July 2016 7.00pm |
La Damnation de Faust First staged performance by the Bolshoi Ballet and Opera theatre |
Bolshoi Ballet and Opera theatre, Moscow,
Russia Bolshoi Opera Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra conductor: Tugan Sokhiev chorus master: Valery Borisov director: Peter Stein set designer: Ferdinand Woegerbauer |
22 July 2016 7.30pm pre-concert talk at 6.30pm |
Roméo et Juliette | Liederhalle, Beethoven-Saal, Stuttgart, Germany Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart SWR NDR Chor SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart conductor: Stéphane Denève Clémentine Margaine (mezzo-soprano) Loïc Félix (tenor) Laurent Naouri (bass-baritone) |
22 July 2016 7.30pm |
Scherzo la Reine Mab (from Roméo et Juliette) Un Bal (from Symphonie fantastique)s) Les Vendredis Classiques de Caunes |
Abbaye de Caunes-Minervois, Caunes-Minervois, Département de l’Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, France Le Concert Impromptu (wind quinte) |
23 July 2016 5.20pm |
Béatrice et Bénédict Glyndeboune Festival 2016 |
Glyndebourne, Lewes, East Sussex, UK London Philharmonic Orchestra conductor: Antonello Manacorda* director: Laurent Pelly with: Stéphanie d’Oustrac (Béatrice) Paul Appleby (Bénédict) Héro: Sophie Karthäuser Don Pedro: Frédéric Caton Claudio: Philippe Sly Somarone: Lionel Lhote Ursule: Katarina Bradić |
23 July 2016 7.00pm |
La Damnation de Faust First staged performance by the Bolshoi Ballet and Opera theatre |
Bolshoi Ballet and Opera theatre, Moscow, Russia Bolshoi Opera Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra conductor: Tugan Sokhiev chorus master: Valery Borisov director: Peter Stein set designer: Ferdinand Woegerbauer |
23 July 2016 7.30pm |
Roméo et Juliette (orchestral movements) Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict Shakespeare 400 concert |
Esplanade Theatre Concert Hall, Singapore Singapore Symphony Orchestra conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier |
24 July 2016 5.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique Festival de musique de Richelieu |
Grande Halle de Richelieu, Richelieu, France Orchestre des Jeunes du Centre conductor: Marius Stieghorst |
24 July 2016 7.00pm |
La Damnation de Faust First staged performance by the Bolshoi Ballet and Opera theatre |
Bolshoi Ballet and Opera theatre, Moscow, Russia Bolshoi Opera Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra conductor: Tugan Sokhiev chorus master: Valery Borisov director: Peter Stein set designer: Ferdinand Woegerbauer |
25 July 2016 7.00pm |
La Damnation de Faust First staged performance by the Bolshoi Ballet and Opera theatre |
Bolshoi Ballet and Opera theatre, Moscow, Russia Bolshoi Opera Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra conductor: Tugan Sokhiev chorus master: Valery Borisov director: Peter Stein set designer: Ferdinand Woegerbauer |
26 July 2016 8.00pm |
Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict | Heilig-Kreuz-Münster, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Baden-Württemberg, Germany SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra conductor: Sir Roger Norrington |
26 July 2016 8.30pm |
Hector Berlioz: Critique le « Rénovateur » Narration of selected writings of Berlioz, in 3 episodes accompanied by 3 piano pieces by Chopin - Mazurka en do dièse mineur, Op. 6 n° 2 - Valse « de l’adieu » en la bémol majeur, Op. 69 n° 1 - Mazurka en la mineur, Op. 17 n° 4 The programme includes also readings of selected writings by George Sand, André Gide, Vladimir Jankélévitch and André Bouchourechliev “La Note bleue, concert littéraire” Nohant Festival Chopin |
Domaine de George Sand, Bergerie-Auditorium Frédéric Chopin, Nohant, France Marie Christine Barrault (narrator) Denis Pascal (piano) |
26 July 2016 9.00pm |
Les Nuits d’été “Les Nuits d’été de Mâcon” |
Place Saint-Pierre, Mâcon Orchestre symphonique de Mâcon conductor: Éric Geneste Marina Viotti (mezzo-soprano) Admission free Concert organised by the city of Mâcon |
27 July 2016 5.20pm |
Béatrice et Bénédict Glyndeboune Festival 2016 |
Glyndebourne, Lewes, East Sussex, UK London Philharmonic Orchestra conductor: Antonello Manacorda* director: Laurent Pelly with: Stéphanie d’Oustrac (Béatrice) Paul Appleby (Bénédict) Héro: Sophie Karthäuser Don Pedro: Frédéric Caton Claudio: Philippe Sly Somarone: Lionel Lhote Ursule: Katarina Bradić |
27 July 2016 7.45pm |
Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem) Three Choirs Festival 2016 |
Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, UK Philharmonia Orchestra Three Choirs Voices Three Choirs Festival Chorus conductor: Edward Gardner Robert Murray (tenor) |
27 July 2016 8.00pm |
Scène d’amour (from Roméo et Juliette) |
Brunnenhof der Residenz, Munich,
Germany Münchner Symphoniker (Munich Symphony Orchestra) conductor: Kevin John Edusei |
28 July 2016 7.30pm |
Overture to Béatrice et
Bénédict BBC Proms 2016 |
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) conductor: Sir Roger Norrington |
30 July 2016 5.20pm |
Béatrice et Bénédict Glyndeboune Festival 2016 |
Glyndebourne, Lewes, East Sussex, UK London Philharmonic Orchestra conductor: Antonello Manacorda* director: Laurent Pelly with: Stéphanie d’Oustrac (Béatrice) Paul Appleby (Bénédict) Héro: Sophie Karthäuser Don Pedro: Frédéric Caton Claudio: Philippe Sly Somarone: Lionel Lhote Ursule: Katarina Bradić |
30 July 2016 7.30pm |
Roméo et Juliette BBC Proms 2016 |
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique Monteverdi Choir National Youth Choir of Scotland conductor: John Eliot Gardiner conductor Julie Boulianne (mezzo-soprano) Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor) Laurent Naouri (bass) |
30 July 2016 | L’Enfance du Christ St Endellion Summer Festival 2016 |
Collegiate Church of St Endelienta, St Endellion, Cornwal, UK Festival Chorus and Orchestra conductor: Martyn Brabbins Frances Bourne (mezzo-soprano) Mark Padmore (tenor) |