ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — Joshua Blue is made for French Romantic opera. The tenor’s ringing bell of a voice softened the consonants and enveloped the vowels in ways no other language would allow, ...

The second in a series of open rehearsals this season that are supported by Agnes Varis, a managing director of the Met’s Board of Directors, and her husband, Karl Leichtman, the dress rehearsal ...

Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust is a légende dramatique, almost an anti-oratorio of sorts, but it remains theatrical in tone with all of the soloists playing characters who need to be portrayed as ...

All the devils are here: inside Richard Jones's theatre of cruelty for Glyndebourne's new staging of 'Le Damnation de Faust' ...

Conventional and moderate he was not, in life as in art, and so it is with Hector Berlioz' musical rendition of the Faust myth, which explodes all conventions and genres. Berlioz initially called his ...

This week, unlike last, there were no onstage protests as Russian maestro Valery Gergiev resumed his Berlioz cycle. It was a pity in a way, because the Putin-supporting conductor’s reading of ...

He was in his 20s then, having just quit medical school when the autopsies proved traumatic and his drive toward music won out over his physician father’s insistences. Then, he wrote eight small ...

Modèle d'intégrité artistique et de finesse musicale, sollicité par toutes les scènes d'opéras du monde, le baryton-basse ...

Every time I hear Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust I am assailed by the guilty conviction that, despite Berlioz’s overarching ambition and superb orchestration, the versions of the Faust legend by ...