Hector Berlioz on DVD. (A Guide To).(Salzburg Festival presentations of Les Troyens, La Damnation de Faust.)(Opera Review)

Opera Canada | June 22, 2003| | Copyright

December 11, 2003, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the most idiosyncratic and controversial figures of the 19th century: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). Described by J.H. Elliot, one of his biographers, as the "most baffling phenomenon in musical history," the somewhat quirky French composer continues to confound listeners with what Richard Wagner once described as his "devilishly confused musical idiom."

While in his 20s, Berlioz contemplated various operatic subjects (even Robin Hood). Although fragments from these early attempts exist (including ...

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