| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 24-Apr-2013 Theater an der Wien | Berlioz's Béatrice et Bénédict at the Theater an der Wien |
 Béatrice et Bénédict is Hector Berlioz’s last work; he wrote it between 1860 and 1862 for the theatre that patron Edouard Bénazet had built in Baden-Baden, then Germany’s most chic health resort. As the work proved an instant success, Bénazet probably never regretted that Berlioz had talked him out of a work set in the Thirty Years’ War in favour of a light opéra comique which is loosely based based on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.Read full review... | |
