Sylvain Cambreling, Staatskapelle Berlin, Paul Groves, Vesselina Kasarova - Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (2000)
Sylvain Cambreling, Staatskapelle Berlin, Paul Groves, Vesselina Kasarova - Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (2000)
PAL 16:9 (720x576) VBR | Français | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | 7.60 Gb (DVD9) | 146 min
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: English, Deutsch, Nederlands
PAL 16:9 (720x576) VBR | Français | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | 7.60 Gb (DVD9) | 146 min
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: English, Deutsch, Nederlands
This imaginative staging of Berlioz's dramatic symphony for chorus, soloists and orchestra relies heavily on the moving of massed choirs across a large stage. It has vivid lighting effects–rather too many of them using strobes–and monolithic multi-purpose sets, in particular a revolving glass drum which functions both as cinema screen and rostrum for singers, so that the final ride to Hell, for example, is sung by Mephistopheles and Faust above a cavalcade of projected horses, like the inside of a zoetrope. 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. (Roz Kaveney)
Cast:
Marguerite - Vesselina Kasarova
Faust - Paul Groves
Méphistophélès - Willard White
Brander - Andreas Macco
Orfeón Donostiarra de San Sebastian
Tölzer Knabenchor
Staatskapelle Berlin
Conductor - Sylvain Cambreling
Sylvain Cambreling, Staatskapelle Berlin, Paul Groves, Vesselina Kasarova - Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (2000)
Sylvain Cambreling, Staatskapelle Berlin, Paul Groves, Vesselina Kasarova - Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (2000)
Sylvain Cambreling, Staatskapelle Berlin, Paul Groves, Vesselina Kasarova - Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (2000)
Sylvain Cambreling, Staatskapelle Berlin, Paul Groves, Vesselina Kasarova - Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (2000)
