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Wheat & Weeds (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
"Troubling Indicators" from The Ryskind Sketchbook Over the weekend, Mr. W & I traveled to the Berkshire mountains to (among other things) take in a concert performance of Berlioz' Les Troyens . As to the quality of the performance, I largely agree with this review (which includes an audio clip), but I confess my mind wandered to Mr. Obama when Cassandra's lover begged her not to think about the future,...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
James Levine opened the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer season at Tanglewood with a concert performance of Berlioz’s biggest, meatiest and most hair-raisingly passionate score, the opera “Les Troyens.”
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Exhibitionist (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
The Boston Symphony Orchestra isn't cutting corners for its July 5 gala at Tanglewood. Berlioz's epic opera, "Les Troyens," will be conducted by James Levine that night, and with all the fixings, including a "10-foot Trojan horse made of white...
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Opera Today (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008
Thirty-six years after Sarah Caldwell and the Opera Company of Boston presented the first complete staged performances in the United States, Hector Berlioz’ Les Troyens returned to Boston in triumph in a series of concert performances presented by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of James Levine to close the BSO’s 2007-2008 season.
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 19/04/2008
Beginning Tuesday, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will devote the remainder of its Symphony Hall season to concert performances of Berlioz's monumental opera "Les Troyens." The BSO has a rich Berlioz tradition and has played portions of this score in the past, but these will be its first complete performances of what is generally considered to be the composer's greatest work, ...
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Jarrett House North (Free subscription) | 26/03/2008
The big concert, that is, or concerts to be more precise. The last Tanglewood Festival Chorus concert series of the Symphony Hall part of our season is coming up, and it’s big: Hector Berlioz’s two part opera, Les Troyens . Everything about it is big: five acts divided into two nights, big chorus, big orchestra, big writing. The background on the opera’s composition makes for some interesting reading...
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PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 30/11/2007
The Boston Symphony Orchestra announced today details of its upcoming eight-week season at Tanglewood, the orchestra's summer home in Lenox, Massachusetts. Hallmarks include concert performances of Berlioz's Les Troyens and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin , all-Beethoven and all-Mozart weekends, a tribute to Leonard Bernstein, and a celebration of Elliott Carter's 100th birthday lasting five days and to...
