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, ...

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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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera said Friday it is scrapping its previously announced revival of Berlioz’s “La Damnation de Faust” next season and replacing it with concert performances. Robert ...

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 ...