Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust

This concert performance from Versailles’ Opéra Royal last November is a curio – almost perfection sits alongside over-cleanness and lack of drama, an almost Karajan-like tidying-up of corners…The... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

Release Date: 17th May 2019
Catalogue No: CVS010
Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles

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Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24

Mathias Vidal (Faust), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Marguerite), Nicolas Courjal (Méphistophélès), Thibault de Damas d’Anlezy (Brander)
Les Siècles, Chœur Marguerite Louise
François-Xavier Roth

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There are some works which seem to be suspended in their time. La Damnation de Faust is a visionary project which took decades to become known as a chef-d’oeuvre, firstly in the rest of Europe and then in France, but posthumously. Today it is an emblematic work, built up of anthological pieces fro orchestra and choir and soloists’ aits which remain in our memories. Its interpretation by François-Xavier Roth in concert version enables us to hear this work with force and the audacity of early Berlioz: sombre but brilliant.

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August 2019

This concert performance from Versailles’ Opéra Royal last November is a curio – almost perfection sits alongside over-cleanness and lack of drama, an almost Karajan-like tidying-up of corners…The story’s very clear and undecorated but we’re rarely gripped by it – by the beautiful singing, yes, but not the drama.

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