Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique — With the Vienna Philharmonic

Canadian superstar conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, a regular collaborator with the gold-standard Vienna Philharmonic since 2010 (including a memorable 2023 Summer Night Concert broadcast live on medici.tv) returns to the world-famous Salzburg Festival in 2024 to join them in a spectacular performance of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique! Written by a 26-year-old Berlioz in thrall of the actress Harriet Smithson, who would become his first wife, this quintessentially programmatic symphony follows a gifted artist tormented by a similarly obsessive love that begins innocently enough with a waltz at the ball and a country scene — but takes a macabre turn to opium-poisoned dreams and a diabolical witches' sabbath…

Photo © Salzburg Festival / Anne Zeuner