Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

We launch our 2026/27 Season with a celebration of Berlioz, a true musical trailblazer.

Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev brings his flair and imagination to a programme full of drama and colour.Our journey begins with Harold in Italy, Berlioz’s poetic response to Byron’s wanderer.

The viola becomes the voice of a restless soul, guided by Timothy Ridout, one of today’s most compelling violists.We then perform Symphonie fantastique, Berlioz’s revolutionary masterpiece.

From tender dreams to hallucinatory visions of passion and the macabre, this is music that changed everything – brought vividly to life by Maxim and the SCO.Kindly supported by Donald and Louise MacDonald