The @CleveOrchestra Plays Berlioz Symphony Fantastique in Three Performances

Lionel Bringuier

Fri 11/27 @ 8PM

Sat 11/28 @ 8PM

Sun 11/29 @ 3PM

French romantic composer Hector Berlioz wrote his Symphony Fantastique in 1830 when he was only in his mid 20s. It’s become a concert staple, appealing to audiences for its emotionalism, drama and big sound. (It was written for a very large complement of instruments). Berlioz provided a back story that explained it all: it was about an artist who becomes a drug addict as a result of unrequited love.

The Cleveland Orchestra will fill Severance Hall with the symphony’s sturm und drang three times this weekend. The program will also include Claude Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and a newly commissioned English horn concerto by composer Bernard Rands, which will feature the orchestra’s English horn player Robert Walters as soloist.

On the podium will be rising French conducting star Lionel Bringuier who, at 29, is only a little older than Berlioz when he wrote Symphony Fantastique. Who said classical music is an old person’s game? Tickets are $49-$162.

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[Photo by Paolo Dutto]

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