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Les Siècles/Lehmann La Damnation de Faust review – vivid colour, soaring solos and a sharp-suited demon

Period instrument grain and an energised Jakob Lehmann did a fair job with Berlioz’s concert setting of the drama, but the hall’s murky acoustic buried some of the sparkle

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31

LSO/LSO Chorus/BBC Symphony Chorus/Henric/Pappano review – grand forces capture the viscerality and desperation of Berlioz’s Requiem

A huge choir, an expanded orchestra, four brass bands and a warehouse-full of percussion achieved surround-sound magnificence

The Guardian - UK · Aug 16

From Jurassic World Rebirth to Kae Tempest: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

There’s another dino crisis as the cold-blooded megafranchise roars on, and the rapper-poet returns with a hugely personal new album

The Guardian - UK · Jul 5, 2025

LSO/Pappano/Wang/Lapwood review – high on feelgood factor

Soloists Yuja Wang and Anna Lapwood brought style and spectacle to Rachmaninov and Saint-Saëns

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2024

One to watch: Berlioz

Inspired by visual art, producer Jasper Attlee’s jazz-house project has a huge streaming audience that's about to get bigger

The Guardian - UK · Jul 6, 2024

Berlioz curates your Friday night playlist

Mysterious producer and DJ Berlioz has quickly become one of the country’s biggest jazz artists thanks to his pastel-coloured house music and has even been compared to Matisse in sonic form

Evening Standard · Jun 14, 2024

Strasbourg Philharmonic/Letonja review – French orchestra delights Bristolians with elan and elegance

The orchestra, here for a five-date British tour, played with warmth and sensitivity, with Nikolai Lugansky the dazzlingly virtuosic soloist in Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2024

The week in classical: Prom 64: Les Troyens; Prom 65: Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony; Proms 62 & 63: The Rite by Heart– review

With a stand-in conductor and a stellar cast, Berlioz’s monumental opera came into its own at the Proms; the BBC Symphony Orchestra let Bruckner’s colours unfurl; and Aurora’s Stravinsky played from memory proved unforgettable

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2023

Prom 64: Les Troyens review – trouble-hit concert-staging rises to the occasion magnificently

Dinis Sousa, replacing John Eliot Gardiner, brought excitement and emotional intensity to Berlioz’s epic opera, aided by a consistently impressive cast

The Guardian - UK · Sep 4, 2023

Prom 64: Berlioz’s The Trojans at the Royal Albert Hall review – the glorious grand opera sounded gorgeous

Dinis Sousa stepped in for John Eliot Gardiner and made a magnificent job of it

Evening Standard · Sep 4, 2023