L'impossible Damnation de Faust au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Benjamin Bernheim dans La Damnation de Faust au TCE

La Damnation de Faust au TCE

By Tristan Labouret, 07 November 2025

Loading, please wait...

See full listing

“la morale est sauve, c’est bien la musique de Berlioz qui règne dans cette œuvre”

Reviewed at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris on 6 November 2025

Berlioz, La Damnation de Faust

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Jakob Lehmann, Conductor

Silvia Costa, Director, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Marco Giusti, Lighting Designer

Les Siècles

Chœur de Radio France

Benjamin Bernheim, Faust

Christian Van Horn, Méphistophélès

Victoria Karkacheva, Marguerite

Thomas Dolié, Brander

Maîtrise de Radio France

Christof Loy’s understated Werther at the TCE

David Karlin, 22nd March

Massenet’s take on Goethe’s blockbuster novella of unrequited love and suicide is handled with great subtlety by Christof Loy and Marc Leroy-Calatayud. Benjamin Bernheim and Marina Viotti lead a starry vocal cast.

****1

Carry on up the Nile: Handel's Berenice by the Seine

Sandra Bowdler, 21st May

One of Handel's lesser operas receives a deluxe concert performance at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, with Il Pomo d'Oro and a fine array of singers.

****1

Operetta with teeth: Offenbach’s La Périchole at the TCE

David Karlin, 13th November

Laurent Pelly’s new production combines froth and hilarity with a dark, satirical heart; Marc Minkowski and the orchestra seduce us.

****1

Devieilhe's Cleopatra reigns in Michieletto's muddled Egyptology show

Mark Pullinger, 11th May

The French soprano delivers an A-list performance as the Egyptian queen, donning a variety of Hollywood guises at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.

***11

A female voice florilegium: Vivaldi's Juditha triumphans in Paris

Laura Servidei, 11th February

A great performance of Vivaldi's only surviving oratorio, with Marie-Nicole Lemieux as the protagonist, under the baton of Jean-Chirstophe Spinosi.

****1

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées: Catone in Utica

Vesna Gerintes, 10th January

Conductor Alan Curtis and musicologist Alessandro Ciccolini have successfully restored Vivaldi's opera Catone in Utica, and they brought it to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris with a star performance from mezzo Ann Hallenberg.

****1

More reviews...

Tristan Labouret

Musicologue diplômé du CNSMD de Paris, Tristan Labouret collabore avec de nombreux artistes et institutions musicales (Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, festivals de musique de chambre de Deauville, Just Classik Festival…), menant des activités de médiation à destination de tous les publics. Ex-altiste toujours passionné par les répertoires chambristes et symphoniques, il occupe depuis 2018 le poste de rédacteur en chef de la partie francophone de Bachtrack.