Event listing: The Damnation of Faust | The London Coliseum | Sun 8 May 2011 at 15:00

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The London ColiseumSt. Martin's Lane, London, Greater London, WC2N 4ES, United Kingdom

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Performers

English National Opera
Edward Gardner	Conductor
Terry Gilliam	Director
Peter Hoare	Tenor	Faust
Christine Rice	Mezzo-soprano	Marguerite
Christopher Purves	Bass	Méphistophélès
Nicholas Folwell	Bass-baritone	Brander

Reviews of La Damnation de Faust, Op.24 directed by Terry Gilliam

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Schillertheater: Großer Saal, Berlin, May 2017

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Berlioz 150: La Damnation de Faust

Mark Pullinger, 7th February

As Sir Mark Elder prepares to conduct La Damnation de Faust, he reflects on the nature of the work and what it is that makes Berlioz sound like Berlioz.

A stellar Damnation de Faust in Manchester

Rohan Shotton, 12th February

Sir Mark Elder conducts a memorable performance of Berlioz' masterpiece in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.

*****

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Terry Gilliam reinvents Berlioz's reinvention of Goethe's Faust

David Karlin, 9th May

When Hector Berlioz first read Gérard de Nerval's translation of Goethe's Faust, he was entranced: he could not put the book down and worked it into a suite entitled Eight Scenes from Faust. Nearly twenty years later, he came back to the material and expanded it into a larger work La Damnation de Faust, but he was perhaps uncertain as to exactly what it was he had created.

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