Aurora Orchestra plays Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique – by heart

Revisit Aurora’s landmark Orchestral Theatre staging of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique at the 2019 BBC Proms. Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique (from memory) Mathew Baynton – actor Nicholas Collon – conductor Jane Mitchell & James Bonas – directors Kate Wicks – production designer Will Reynolds – consultant designer Cydney Uffindell-Phillips – movement consultant Concept and script by Jane Mitchell Waltz through a glittering ball, enter a feverish dream, march to your own execution, and spin into dark delirium at a witches’ sabbath. Take on the opium-infused visions of a tortured artist haunted by unrequited passion in this Orchestral Theatre production of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. Inspired by the composer’s own romantic infatuation with a young actress, this epoch-making work unfolds as a cinematic fantasy full of wild imagination and demonic madness – by turns gorgeous and grotesque. Aurora Orchestra and actor Mathew Baynton (Horrible Histories