James Levine

...of Mahler's First Symphony was choppy; Levine's conducting of Mahler is spectacular. (Listen to the BSO's recording of the Sixth under Levine.) Gilbert's conducting of Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique'' at his inaugural was fine, but...

In this article: Louisiana, Leonard Bernstein, John Adams, Green Umbrella, Hector Berlioz, New York, and Michael Tilson Thomas

...at the Met November 7. Music Director James Levine conducts the first staging of the work at the Met since 1906, with Marcello Giordani in the title role, Susan Graham as Marguerite, and John Relyea as Mephistopheles. Lepage has reconceived...

In this article: Robert Lepage, La damnation de Faust, Susan Graham, Faust, Emmy Award, Hector Berlioz, and Auckland

...by Edo de Waart), and at the Metropolitan Opera (with the American mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson as Dido, conducted by James Levine). Only knowing the work from a piano score, the British critic W.J. Turner declared that Les...

In this article: Hector Berlioz, Didon, Les Troyens, Troy, Carthage, Paris, Thomas Beecham, and Italy

...Orchestra in Berlioz s Troyens at Tanglewood. Published: July 8, 2008 LENOX, Mass. James Levine opened the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer season at Tanglewood here exactly as he closed its formal season at Symphony Hall in Boston,...

In this article: Hector Berlioz, Aeneas, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood, Les Troyens, and Boston

TANGLEWOOD For James Levine's final weekend this summer at Tanglewood, he leads the BSO in a Berlioz and Mussorgsky program on Friday, and the Brahms Requiem with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus on Saturday. On Sunday and...

In this article: Tanglewood, 8:30, Richard Wilbur, Bang on a Can, and Don Giovanni

...French-Canadian experimenter Robert Lepage. Mr. Lepage is the postmodern visionary who has just staged Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust, conducted by James Levine, at the Metropolitan Opera House. Described as the Met's "first interactive...

In this article: Robert Lepage, Hamlet, Opium, La damnation de Faust, Peter Gelb, Hector Berlioz, Metropolitan Opera House, and E mail

BSO ingeniously showcases new styles from French composers Principal violist Steven Ansell performs Berlioz's ''Harold in Italy'' with James Levine and the BSO Thursday night. (michael j. lutch) Reprinted from late editions of...

In this article: Steven Ansell, Hector Berlioz, Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Rite of Spring, and Climax

For his concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on Monday evening, Mr. Levine cut a broad swath through the French repertory, with painterly works by Berlioz and Debussy framing vocal music by Duparc and Henri Dutilleux.

In this article: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Renee Fleming, Henri Dutilleux, Hector Berlioz, Carnegie Hall, Orchestration, Claude Debussy, and Romeo et Juliette

...Sir Colin Davis). Levine's opening night program (Sept. 23) will spotlight longtime BSO harpist Ann Hobson Pilot, due to retire in August 2009, as the soloist in a new work by John Williams called "On Willows and Birches." Evgeny Kissin will...

In this article: E-mail, Elliott Carter, Peter Lieberson, John Harbison, Hector Berlioz, John Williams, Four Last Songs, Fourth Symphony, and Symphony No. 7