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Sentimental Work: Fabio Biondi on Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette

2025-03-14T09:43:00

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Discovering Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette was a pivotal moment in the Italian violinist–conductor’s path to understanding the world of 19th-century Romanticism

I first came across Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette around 20 years ago. By that time I had begun to be interested in 19th-century Italian opera; in 2001 I’d prepared a version of Bellini’s Norma for Europa Galante to perform at the Festival Verdi in Parma, and it went on from there. As a violinist I was also interested in the life of Paganini, who had an interest in opera himself; he conducted Rossini’s Matilde di Shabran in Rome and was a great friend of Berlioz…

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