Release Date
25 Aug, 1999
Runtime
02:26: (HH:MM)
Synopsis
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.
Original Title
La Damnation de Faust
Photos
Sylvain Cambreling
Vesselina Kasarova
Willard White
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hector Berlioz