The Damnation of Faust

The three main soloists have voices on a scale that can compete with these flashy production values – White and Kasarova, in particular, sing at a level of intensity that would swamp anything less; the climactic seduction trio has rarely been sung so well or with such an overpoweringly polymorphous eroticism. Cambreling marshals his forces effectively, giving full rein to the work's showstoppers like the "Hungarian March" but not neglecting the subtler less kinetic Gluckian side of Berlioz's vocal writing. Recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele, 1999.

Country:

France

Genre:

Music

Duration:

146 minutes

Year:

1999

Director:

Alexandre Tarta

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Company:

Arthaus Musik

Cast:
Sylvain Cambreling

Conductor

Vesselina Kasarova

Paul Groves

Willard White

Andreas Macco

Crew:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Writer

Alexandre Tarta

Director

Almire Gandonnière

Writer

Hector Berlioz

Writer