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Sat 14 Feb 2026 20:15 - 21:30
Berlioz’s strong women
Netherlands Wind Ensemble
From Tue 25 Mar 2025 12:00
Nederlands Blazers Ensemble - Berlioz (photo Peter Lodder)

Berlioz’s strong women

Netherlands Wind Ensemble
Sat 14 Feb 2026 20:15 - 21:30
Sat 14 Feb 2026
20:15 - 21:30
  • Sat 14 Feb 2026
    20:15 - 21:30
    Grote Zaal
    From Tue 25 Mar 2025 12:00

Program

19.15 uur / Foyerdeck 1 / Pre-concert talk

20.15 uur / Grote Zaal / Main program
Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Hector Berlioz La mort de Cléopâtre

21.45 uur / Entrance Hall / Post-concert

Credits

Nederlands Blazers Ensemble 
And guests 

In the footsteps of the eccentric composer

The Netherlands Wind Ensemble (NBE) yearns, whispers, weeps, and deeply moves audiences with the strong women of Hector Berlioz, the eccentric French composer. His revolutionary Symphonie fantastique – a whirlwind of obsession, madness, jealousy, and murder – revolves around a strong, unreachable woman. And in La mort de Cléopâtre, the fearless Cleopatra chooses suicide over imprisonment, thus taking control of her own faith.

Berlioz’s masterfully orchestrated compositions have been adapted for the NBE into a spectacular wind arrangement. The result is an expressive performance, full of drama, desire and tragedy.

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Nederlands Blazers Ensemble - Berlioz (photo Peter Lodder)
Nederlands Blazers Ensemble - Berlioz (photo Peter Lodder)

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