The Damnation of Faust

Synopsis

This live recording was made at the Royal Albert Hall during one of Londons famous Promenade Concert seasons. Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a magnificent performance of Berliozs concert cantata. This feast of Berlioz launched Soltis farewell tour with the orchestra he had directed for twenty years and was described by The Times as the unsurpassable culmination of two decades of music-making...one that summarised all that has been most admirable about Soltis long reign in Chicago. Like reading the book by flashes of lightning was how one writer described the relationship of Berlioz to Goethe in this Dramatic Legend, his way of shaping twenty scenes selected from the story into a narrative in four parts. Though it has sometimes been staged, the works drama is to be found within the music itself, which illuminates the incidents with what the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham once called a bunch of the loveliest tunes in existence.

Main Cast

Anne Sofie von Otter

Marguerite (mezzosoprano)

Age : 69 | Popularity : 7%

Keith Lewis

Faust (tenor)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

José van Dam

Mephistopheles (baritono)

Age : 83 | Popularity : 3%

Peter Rose

Brander (basso)

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Rodney Greenberg
Sound	Conductor	Georg Solti
	Original Music Composer	Hector Berlioz
Writing	Writer	Hector Berlioz Almire Gandonnière
Department	Role	Name

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