The Damnation of Faust (1999)
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.
Director: Alexandre Tarta
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Sylvain Cambreling as Conductor |
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Vesselina Kasarova as |
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Paul Groves as |
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Willard White as |
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Andreas Macco as |
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Staatskapelle Berlin as |
| Writing | Almire Gandonnière | Writer |
| Directing | Alexandre Tarta | Director |
| Writing | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Writer |
| Writing | Hector Berlioz | Writer |
