The LSO performing a major work by Berlioz, under the baton of Colin Davis, sounds like a sure-fire hit and, while ultimately not as uplifting and totally engrossing as some of the other works in the ...

Un allestimento sovraccarico, ma interpretazione dell’orchestra e delle voci di alto livello. Il regista e scenografo ...

It’s a brave company that tackles Berlioz’s problematical first opera as the pitfalls are immense. First there’s the unwieldy ninety-minute first act, whose dramaturgy is shaky to say the least as ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Benvenuto is set against a background of rivalry in art and love. Pope Clement VII has chosen Cellini over his ...