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| La Scala - http://www.teatroallascala.org/public/LaScala/EN/index.html The concert pairs Berlioz's very famous Symphonie Fantastique with another, less known composition of the same author: Cléopâtre (or La Mort de Cléopâtre), the scène lyrique for soprano and orchestra. At the time judged "intolerable" by the obtuse and reactionary examiners of the "Prix de Rome", it already reveals in a nutshell the improvised thunderbolts that a year ahead (1829), announce the inventive originality of the Fantastique. - [Read more] |
