Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Saturday afternoon saw the return of Berlioz's DAMNATION OF FAUST to the ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. A gorgeous new recoding of Berlioz's DAMNATION DE FAUST, on the Erato label ...

Berlioz’s compelling take on the Faust legend returns to The Met for the first time in a decade, with an ideal line-up of stars. Tenor Michael Spyres is the doomed and besotted Faust, opposite ...

Hector Berlioz’s “The Damnation of Faust” is an intoxicant, two hours long. It isn’t often performed, which would be reason enough to run to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, where it is being ...

Opera? Cantata? “Opéra de concert”? One of the defining Romantic composers of the 19th century, Hector Berlioz gave “Damnation of Faust” audiences a work that even today defies categorization. Not ...

‘This marvellous book fascinated me from the first; I could not put it down’: Hector Berlioz’s first encounter with Goethe’s Faust I immediately inspired the 25-year-old composer to write settings for ...

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He may not have the title role in Berlioz's "Damnation of Faust," but it's awfully hard to keep Mephistopheles -- that suave, ironical seducer -- from shamelessly stealing the spotlight. And when the ...

With more than 100 members of the London Symphony Chorus crammed onto the platform along with a full-size orchestra that fielded among other instruments four harps, two tubas, and six basses, it was ...

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