Archive of performances of Berlioz’s music around the world
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1 May 2007 7.00pm Introduction to the work 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the Kellerrestaurant of the Semperoper |
La Damnation de Faust
staged production |
Semperoper, Dresden, Germany Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden Staatsopernchor conductor: Marc Albrecht chorus master: Matthias Brauer producer: Keith Warner Marcello Giordani (Faust), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Méphistophélès) Michael Eder (Brander), Sophie Koch (Marguerite) |
1 May 2007 8.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique |
Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA Philadelphia Orchestra conductor: Christoph Eschenbach |
1 May 2007 8.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique (5th movement: Songe d’une nuit de sabbat) |
Philharmonie, Alfried Krupp Saal,
Essen, Germany Nürnberger Symphoniker conductor: Frank Strobel |
1 May 2007 8.00pm |
Overture Le Corsaire Quebec Scene Festival |
National Arts Centre, Southam Hall, Ottawa, Canada Orchestre symphonique de Québec conductor: Yoav Talmi |
2 May 2007 8.30pm |
Sinfonía fantástica [Symphonie fantastique] |
Palacio de la Opera [Opera House], La Coruña, Spain Orquesta sinfonica de Galicia conductor: Victor Pablo Pérez |
2 May 2007 8.30pm |
Romeo e Giulietta
Ballet, set to Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette |
Teatro Filarmonico, Arena di Verona,
Verona, Italy Prima ballerinas, soloists, corps de ballet, orchestra, choir and stage technicians of the Fondazione Arena di Verona stage design: National Foundation of the Aterballetto dance group from Reggio Emilia principal conductor: Kevin Rhodes director: Amedeo Amodio scenographer: Mario Ceroli costume designer: Luisa Spinatelli choreographer: Amedeo Amodio assistant choreographer: Stefania Di Cosmo soloist: Giorgio Giuseppini cast: Romeo: Roberto Bolle; Giulietta: Letizia Giuliani Benvolio: Alessandro Riga; Paride: Giovanni Patti Tebaldo: Antonio Russo Fata Mab: Alessia Gelmetti /Amaya Ugarteche |
3 May 2007 8.30pm |
Symphonie fantastique International Series |
Dewan Filharmonik Petronas, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia London Symphony Orchestra conductor: Daniel Harding |
4 May 2007 8.00pm |
Les Nuits d’été | Salle philharmonique, Liège, Belgium Orchestre philharmonique de Liège conductor: Patrick Davin Sophie Karthäuser (soprano) Angélique Noldus (mezzo-soprano) |
4 May 2007 8.00pm |
Scène d’amour (from Roméo et Juliette) |
Powell Symphony Hall, Saint Louis, USA Saint Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra conductor: Scott Parkman |
5 May 2007 3.00pm |
Les Nuits d’été | Salle philharmonique, Liège, Belgium Orchestre philharmonique de Liège conductor: Patrick Davin Sophie Karthäuser (soprano) Angélique Noldus (mezzo-soprano) |
5 May 2007 8.00pm |
Overture Le Carnaval romain |
Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, Orlando, USA Orlando Philharmonic conductor: Christopher Wilkins |
6 May 2007 3.00pm |
Works unspecified Family Concert – Let’s Dance |
Castle Hall, Hertford, UK Hertford Symphony Orchestra conductor: Gerry Cornelius |
8 May 2007 7.30pm |
Cléopâtre | Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal, Linz,
Austria Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg conductor: Ivor Bolton Katarina Karnéus (mezzo-soprano) |
10 May 2007 7.30pm |
Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict Symphonie fantastique |
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN, USA Minnesota Orchestra conductor: Edo de Waart |
10 May 2007 |
Symphonie fantastique Wallin Festival |
Oslo Concert Hall, Oslo, Norway Oslo-Filharmonien conductor: Christian Eggen |
11 May 2007 7.30pm |
Overture Le Carnaval romain |
Háskólabíó [University Cinema], Reykjavik, Iceland Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands [Iceland Symphony Orchestra] conductor: David Björkmann |
11 May 2007 8.00pm |
Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict Symphonie fantastique |
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN, USA Minnesota Orchestra conductor: Edo de Waart |
12 May 2007 7.30pm pre-concert lecture given by the Symphony’s own Principal Cellist, Paul Christopher, at 6.30pm |
Symphonie fantastique |
Shreveport Civic Theatre, Shreveport, USA Shreveport Symphony Orchestra conductor: Michael Butterman |
12 May 2007 7.30pm |
Overture Le Carnaval romain |
King Center, Auraria Campus of the University of Colorado, Denver, USA Denver Philharmonic Orchestra conductor: Dr. Horst Buchholz |
12 May 2007 7.30pm |
Roméo et Juliette (excerpts) |
Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra conductor: Gerard Doherty |
12 May 2007 7.30pm |
Chasse royale et orage (from Les Troyens) |
Townley Grammar School, Bexleyheath, London, UK Sidcup Symphony Orchestra conductor: James Ross |
12 May 2007 7.30pm |
Les Nuits d’été (selection) |
St Wilfrid’s Church, Haywards Heath, Sussex, UK Mid Sussex Sinfonia conductor: Derek Watmough Sarah Corp (soprano) |
12 May 2007 7.30pm |
Adieu des Bergers à la Sainte Famille Music for Organ and Trumpet |
St Alphage’s Church, Burnt Oak, Edgware, Middlesex, UK Marie-André Morisset-Balier (organ) Michel Morisset (trumpet) |
12 May 2007 8.00pm |
Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict Symphonie fantastique |
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN, USA Minnesota Orchestra conductor: Edo de Waart |
12 May 2007 |
Symphonie fantastique | Dewan Filharmonik Petronas, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra conductor: Matthias Bamert |
13 May 2007 |
Symphonie fantastique | Dewan Filharmonik Petronas, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra conductor: Matthias Bamert |
13 May 2007 3.00pm |
Symphonie funèbre et triomphale Loch Shiel Spring Festival 2007 Festival Finale – Open Air Concert |
Glenfinnan House Hotel Grounds, Glenfinnan, Scotland, UK Pan-Highland Symphonic Wind Orchestra conductor: Kenneth Dempster |
13 May 2007 7.15pm |
Symphonie fantastique Spring Music Festival – closing concert |
Shanghai Grand Theatre, Lyric Theatre,
Shanghai, China Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conductor: Myung-Whun Chung |
16 May 2007 7.30pm |
Les Nuits d’été arrangement: David Matthews |
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK Nash Ensemble conductor: Marc Minkowski Felicity Lott (soprano) |
17 May 2007 7.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique | Slovak Philharmonic Concert Hall, Bratislava, Slovakia Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conductor: Zdeněk Mácal |
17 May 2007 7.30pm |
Symphonie fantastique |
Holland Performing Arts Center, Peter Kiewit Concert Hall, Omaha, USA The Philadelphia Orchestra conductor: Christoph Escenbach |
17 May 2007 7.30pm |
Overture Le Carnaval romain Les Nuits d’été Festival Croisements organised by the French Embassy |
Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Oriental Concert
Hall, Shanghai, China Orchestre nationale de Lille conductor: Jean Claude Casadesus Marie-Ange Todorovitch (mezzo-soprano) |
17 May 2007 8.00pm |
Overture Le Carnaval romain | congress centrum neue weimarhalle (ccnweimarhalle),
Weimar, Germany Staatskapelle Weimar conductor: Carl St. Clair |
18 May 2007 7.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique | Slovak Philharmonic Concert Hall, Bratislava, Slovakia Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conductor: Zdeněk Mácal |
18 May 2007 8.00pm pre-concert talk 45 minutes prior to performance |
Grande Messe des morts
(Requiem) Jacobs’ Masterworks |
Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego, USA San Diego Symphony San Diego Master Chorale (chorus master and coach: Martin Wright) conductor: Jahja Ling Vinson Cole (tenor) |
19 May 2007 7.00pm |
Overture Le Corsaire | Grand Hall, St.
Petersburg Academic Phiharmonic, St. Petersburg, Russia St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra conductor: Vassily Sinaisky |
19 May 2007 7.15pm |
La Damnation de Faust
sung in French |
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Wales, UK Welsh National Opera Choristers of Llandaff Cathedral Choir conductor: Carlo Rizzi Gregory Kunde (Faust) Alastair Miles (Méphistophélès) Ann Murray (Marguerite) David Soar (Brander) |
19 May 2007 7.30pm |
Chasse royale et orage (from Les Troyens) |
Ravensbourne School, Bromley, Kent, UK Bromley Symphony Orchestra conductor: Adrian Brown |
19 May 2007 7.30pm |
Te Deum |
Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, St Albans, UK Dacorum Symphony Orchestra Coro e Orchestra Desiderio da Settignano Tring Choral Society The Chiltern Chamber Choir Hertfordshire County Youth Choir conductor: Thomas Loten |
19 May 2007 7.30pm |
Overture Le Carnaval romain A Tour of 3 Cities [Rome, Paris, London] |
Trinity Church, Harrow, UK Trinity Orchestra conductor: Michael Murray |
19 May 2007 8.00pm pre-concert talk 45 minutes prior to performance Read a review of this concert by Mary Weber |
Grande Messe des morts
(Requiem) Jacobs’ Masterworks |
Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego, USA San Diego Symphony San Diego Master Chorale (chorus master and coach: Martin Wright) conductor: Jahja Ling Vinson Cole (tenor) |
19 May 2007 7.30pm |
Overture Le Carnaval romain Les Nuits d’été “Meet in Beijing” Festival |
Forbidden City Hall, Beijin, China Orchestre nationale de Lille conductor: Jean Claude Casadesus Marie-Ange Todorovitch (mezzo-soprano) |
19 May 2007 8.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique |
Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, Davis, CA,
USA The Philadelphia Orchestra conductor: Christoph Eschenbach |
20 May 2007 2.00pm pre-concert talk 45 minutes prior to performance |
Grande Messe des morts
(Requiem) Jacobs’ Masterworks |
Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego, USA San Diego Symphony San Diego Master Chorale (chorus master and coach: Martin Wright) conductor: Jahja Ling Vinson Cole (tenor) |
20 May 2007 3.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique |
Atlanta
Symphony Hall, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, USA Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra conductor: Jere Flint |
20 May 2007 3.00pm |
Cléopâtre |
Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, New York, USA The MET Orchestra conductor: James Levine Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano) |
20 May 2007 4.00pm |
La Mort d’Ophélie Shakespeare Festival Concert |
Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D C, USA Cathedral Choral Society conductor: J Reilly Lewis chorus master: Todd Fickley |
20 May 2007 7.00pm |
Marche hongroise
(from La Damnation de Faust) 47th Annual Spring Concert |
West Middle School, Binghamton, NY, USA Binghamton Youth Symphony conductor: Barry Peters |
20 May 2007 7.30pm |
Overture Le Carnaval romain A Spring Concert |
Sherbrooke St Gilbert Church, Glasgow, Scotland, UK Glasgow Sinfonia conductor: Gerard Doherty |
22 May 2007 7.30pm |
Symphonie fantastique |
St John’s, Smith Square, London, UK The Salomon Orchestra conductor: Nicholas Collon |
23 May 2007 7.30pm |
Béatrice et Bénédict
sung in French |
Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Millennium Park, Chicago, USA Chicago Opera Theater conductor: Jan Latham-Koenig director: Nicola Raab cast includes: Béatrice: Sandra Piques Eddy; Bénédict: Joseph Kaiser Claudio: Matthew Worth; Hero: Rinnat Moriah Ursula: Jurgita Adamonyte; Don Pedro: Joshua Bloom Somarone: Paul Corona |
23 May 2007 8.00pm |
Le spectre de la rose L’ile inconnue (from Les Nuits d’été) |
Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France Grace Bumbry (soprano) Alexander Schmalcz (piano) |
25 May 2007 7.30pm |
Béatrice et Bénédict
sung in French |
Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Millennium Park, Chicago, USA Chicago Opera Theater conductor: Jan Latham-Koenig director: Nicola Raab cast includes: Béatrice: Sandra Piques Eddy; Bénédict: Joseph Kaiser Claudio: Matthew Worth; Hero: Rinnat Moriah Ursula: Jurgita Adamonyte; Don Pedro: Joshua Bloom Somarone: Paul Corona |
25 May 2007 8.00pm |
L’Enfance du Christ Concert accompanied by a visual presentation assembled by curators at the Cincinnati Art Museum displaying various artists’ depictions of the nativity story projected onto a screen Cincinnati May Festival |
Music Hall, Cincinnati, OH, USA Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra May Festival Chorus (director: Robert Porco) conductor: James Conlon Michèle Losier, mezzo-soprano (Marie) John Aler, tenor (Narrator/Centurion) William McGraw, baritone (Joseph/Polydorus) David Pittsinger, bass-baritone (Hérode/The Ishmaelite Father) |
27 May 2007 3.00pm |
Béatrice et Bénédict
Sung in French |
Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Millennium Park, Chicago, USA Chicago Opera Theater conductor: Jan Latham-Koenig director: Nicola Raab cast includes: Béatrice: Sandra Piques Eddy; Bénédict: Joseph Kaiser Claudio: Matthew Worth; Hero: Rinnat Moriah Ursula: Jurgita Adamonyte; Don Pedro: Joshua Bloom Somarone: Paul Corona |
27 May 2007 8.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique |
Silva Concert Hall, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene, USA The Philadelphia Orchestra conductor: Christoph Eschenbach |
27 May 2007 9.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique |
Coliseu dos Recreios, Lisbon, Portugal London Symphony Orchestra conductor: Daniel Harding |
28 May 2007 7.00pm |
Benvenuto Cellini semi-staged performance, sung in French XV International Festival Stars of the White Nights |
Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet and Opera
Theatre, St.
Petersburg, Russia Mariinsky Theatre Opera Company, Orchestra and Chorus conductor: Valery Gergiev stage director: Vasily Barkhatov set designer: Zinovy Margolin principal chorus master: Andrei Petrenko soloists not announced |
28 May 2007 8.00pm |
Symphonie fantastique Prague Spring International Music Festival |
Smetana
Hall, Municipal House, Prague, Czech Republic Prague Symphony Orchestra conductor: Serge Baudo |
29 May 2007 7.30pm |
Symphonie fantastique |
Benaroya Hall, S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, USA The Philadelphia Orchestra conductor: Christoph Eschenbach |
31 May 2007 6.45pm |
Symphonie fantastique |
Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, New York, USA New York Philharmonic conductor: Lorin Maazel |
31 May 2007 |
Simfonia fantastică [Symphonie fantastique] | Ateneul Român, Bucharest, Romania Orchestra simfonică a Filarmonicii GEORGE ENESCU conductor: Ilarion Ionescu Galaţi |
31 May 2007 7.30pm |
Béatrice et Bénédict
sung in French |
Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Millennium Park, Chicago, USA Chicago Opera Theater conductor: Jan Latham-Koenig director: Nicola Raab cast includes: Béatrice: Sandra Piques Eddy; Bénédict: Joseph Kaiser Claudio: Matthew Worth; Hero: Rinnat Moriah Ursula: Jurgita Adamonyte; Don Pedro: Joshua Bloom Somarone: Paul Corona |