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    The French romantic composer Hector Berlioz produced significant musical and literary works. Berlioz composed mainly in the genres of opera, symphonies...
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    Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer and conductor. His output includes orchestral works such as the...
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    from the stage in 1967 and taught in Paris. Hector Berlioz : L'Enfance du Christ, op. 25 (solos), Hélène Bouvier, Jean Giraudeau, Michel Roux, Louis Noguéra...
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    L'enfance du Christ (category Religious music by Hector Berlioz)
    by the French composer Hector Berlioz, based on the Holy Family's flight into Egypt (see Gospel of Matthew 2:13). Berlioz wrote his own words for the piece...
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    Gounod rather than Berlioz. Jules Massenet, according to his own memoirs, was the subject of the joke in 1863, when Auber said to Berlioz, "He'll go far,...
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  • Rossini's Guillaume Tell, to Opéra National de Bordeaux for the title role in Berlioz' La damnation de Faust and to the Liceu, Barcelona, in the title role of...
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    operatic traditions, containing works by composers of the stature of Rameau, Berlioz, Gounod, Bizet, Massenet, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc and Messiaen. Many foreign-born...
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    with roles including Beethoven's Leonore, Wagner's Sieglinde and Kundry, Berlioz's Cassandre and Didon, and Bartók's Judith. The New York Times music critic...
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    Mikado); Offenbach's Mercury (Orphée aux enfers) and Menelaus (La Belle Helene); Berlioz' Faust (La Damnation de Faust) and Tchaikovsky's Lensky (Eugene Onegin)...
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  • Les Troyens discography (category Operas by Hector Berlioz)
    This is a partial discography of Hector Berlioz's opera, Les Troyens. Its first performance on 4 November 1863 consisted of Acts 3 to 5 only. The first...
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  • Landesjugendorchester Berlin, Les nuits d'été and La mort de Cléopâtre by Berlioz, Ravel's Shéhérazade, conducted by François-Xavier Roth. She sang Messiaen’s...
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    dislike. Berlioz reacted by bracketing Offenbach and Wagner together as "the product of the mad German mind", and Wagner, ignoring Berlioz, retaliated...
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    best represented in her famous portrayal as Dido, the tragic heroine of Berlioz's magnum opus, Les Troyens. As a concert performer, Baker was noted for...
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    Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Offenbach: La Belle Hélène (1997) -- [VHS & DVD] As Hélène with Nikolaus Harnoncourt & Zurich Opera (Note: VHS and...
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  • bois dormant, Lecocq, 1900 La belle Hélène, Offenbach, 1864 Il Bellerofonte, Mysliveček, 1767 Benvenuto Cellini, Berlioz, 1838 Bertha, Rorem, 1973 Betrothal...
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  • Grammophon, 1998) Beethoven, Fidelio (Leonore), cond. Bernard Haitink (Philips) Berlioz, Les Troyens (Cassandre/Didon), cond. James Levine (Met Opera on Demand...
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    in projects around Berlioz (Symphonie Fantastique, Nuit d'été, Harold en Italie) and Jacques Offenbach in particular (La Belle Hélène, La Grande Duchesse...
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    musician, playing with Nicholas Angelich, Jérôme Ducros, Frank Braley, Hélène Grimaud, Gérard Caussé, as well as with his younger brother Gautier, a cellist...
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    just released from prison, assures Hélène how deeply he despises the governor. Overhearing this, Montfort orders Hélène to leave and then, alone with Henri...
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  • Under Christie and Marc Minkowski she expanded her repertoire to include Berlioz, Fauré and Britten. In the years following this she sang Mozart's Sesto...
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    John Gay, composed in 1733 Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz, composed 1856–8 after Virgil. La belle Hélène by Jacques Offenbach composed in 1864 Troilus and...
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  • Godunov and Macbeth. His discography includes: Auber: La muette de Portici Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust Bizet: Djamileh Debussy: La chute de la maison Usher...
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  • (Puccini) Don Alvaro, La forza del destino (Verdi) Enée, Les Troyens (Berlioz) Florestan, Fidelio (Beethoven) Otello, Otello (Verdi) Samson, Samson et...
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    concerto throughout his life, including at an 1841 performance with Hector Berlioz conducting, at the unveiling of the Beethoven Monument in 1845, and at...
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  • Lucien Bély Yves-Marie Bercé Jean-François Berdah Nicole Bériou Jacques Berlioz Carmen Bernand Mathias Bernard Serge Berstein Marie-Claude Blanc-Chaléard...
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  • (1816–1878) Louise Béguin-Salomon (1831–1916) George Benjamin (born 1960) Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) Henri Betti (1917–2005) Vanraj Bhatia (1927–2021) Marcel Bitsch...
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    theatre. Berlioz, a close friend of Viardot and an expert on the music of Gluck, was engaged to prepare the new adaptation. Initially Berlioz was enthusiastic...
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    Krasiński, Alphonse de Lamartine, George Sand, Honoré de Balzac, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Eugène Delacroix, and Adam Mickiewicz. In fact, Chopin's...
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  • Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini (RCA Victor) Symphonic Music - Berlioz Symphonie fantastique with San Francisco Symphony under Pierre Monteux...
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  • Saint-Fugasse Daisy Thomas as La femme de chambre Jacques Beauvais Pierre Berlioz Clairjane Irma Perrot Crisp p.395 Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention...
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