Hector Berlioz fell hopelessly in love with an actress who barely knew him, then turned his infatuation into one of classical ...

Witches take over the Houston Symphony this weekend. Classical fans can guess what that means: the return of Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique," a sound spectacular, and no more so than in its ...

It was fun surfing for Witches' Sabbath/Black Mass clip art for today's post. One thing I learned from this: Witches liked to party hard. I'd have to get wasted to do some of those things. The ...

Throughout its five movements, Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique (1830) tells the story of a love-struck artist who overdoses on opium and descends into psychedelic madness. While the first three ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The Romantic-era composer, the focus of this year’s Bard Music Festival, wrote works that sprang from a mind capable of thinking only in pipe dreams. Hector Berlioz, whose ...