The Damnation of Faust

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The Damnation of Faust (1999)

Directed by Alexandre Tarta

Music · 2h 26m

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.

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Cast

Sylvain Cambreling Conductor Vesselina Kasarova
P
Paul Groves Willard White
A
Andreas Macco
S
Staatskapelle Berlin

Crew

Director
Alexandre Tarta
Writer
Almire Gandonnière, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hector Berlioz

Details

Original title
La Damnation de Faust
Release date
1999-08-25
Runtime
2h 26m
Genres
Music
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
French
Countries
France
Production
Arthaus Musik