Berlioz - La Damnation de Faust (Garanca, Castronovo, Vienna State Opera) (320kbps .mp3)

Berlioz - La Damnation de Faust (Garanca, Castronovo, Vienna State Opera) (320kbps .mp3)

Vienna Philharmonic at the 2021 Salzburg Festival: Berlioz' La Damnation de Faust.

Over the next two weeks Opera on 3 presents two French takes on the Faust legend, in which the hero exchanges his soul for unlimited knowledge. Today: a concert presentation of Berlioz’s compelling and imaginative version - like the masterpiece it's based on, wild and grandiose but also intimately beautiful.

The cast is an ideal line-up of stars: tenor Charles Castronovo sings the doomed and besotted Faust, with the dazzling mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca as his forsaken lover Marguerite and bass Ildar Abdrazakov as the malevolent Méphistophélès. Alain Altinoglu conducts.

Presented by Tom Service, in conversation with William Mival.

Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, op. 24, dramatic legend in four parts

Marguerite: Elina Garanca, mezzo-soprano
Faust: Charles Castronovo, tenor
Méphistophélès: Ildar Abdrazakov, bass
Brander: Peter Kellner, bass-baritone
Vienna State Opera Chorus Concert Association
Salzburg Festival and Theatre Children's Choir
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu, conductor

In Opera on 3 at the same time next week: Gounod's Faust

Image: © SF / Marco Borrelli
Berlioz - La Damnation de Faust (Garanca, Castronovo, Vienna State Opera) (320kbps .mp3)

Vienna Philharmonic at the 2021 Salzburg Festival: Berlioz' La Damnation de Faust.

Over the next two weeks Opera on 3 presents two French takes on the Faust legend, in which the hero exchanges his soul for unlimited knowledge. Today: a concert presentation of Berlioz’s compelling and imaginative version - like the masterpiece it's based on, wild and grandiose but also intimately beautiful.

The cast is an ideal line-up of stars: tenor Charles Castronovo sings the doomed and besotted Faust, with the dazzling mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca as his forsaken lover Marguerite and bass Ildar Abdrazakov as the malevolent Méphistophélès. Alain Altinoglu conducts.

Presented by Tom Service, in conversation with William Mival.

Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, op. 24, dramatic legend in four parts

Marguerite: Elina Garanca, mezzo-soprano
Faust: Charles Castronovo, tenor
Méphistophélès: Ildar Abdrazakov, bass
Brander: Peter Kellner, bass-baritone
Vienna State Opera Chorus Concert Association
Salzburg Festival and Theatre Children's Choir
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu, conductor

In Opera on 3 at the same time next week: Gounod's Faust

Image: © SF / Marco Borrelli
Broadcast: 13 November 2021, BBC Radio 3