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.

Cast

Sylvain Cambreling

Sylvain Cambreling

as Conductor

Vesselina Kasarova

Vesselina Kasarova

as

Paul Groves

Paul Groves

as

Willard White

Willard White

as

Andreas Macco

Andreas Macco

as

Staatskapelle Berlin

Staatskapelle Berlin

as

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