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Lightning strikes again in Strasbourg: Michael Spyres thrills in La Damnation de Faust

By Mark Pullinger, 26 April 2019
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“Spyres submits wholly to the music, often caught in a reverie”
Reviewed at Palais de la Musique et des Congrès, salle Érasme, Strasbourg on 25 April 2019
Programme
Berlioz, La Damnation de Faust (Concert performance)
Performers
John Nelson, Conductor
Joyce DiDonato, Marguerite
Michael Spyres, Faust
Nicolas Courjal, Méphistophélès
Alexandre Duhamel, Brander
Coro Gulbenkian
Les Petits Chanteurs de Strasbourg
Maîtrise de l'Opéra national du Rhin
Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg
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Mark Pullinger
Mark Pullinger
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.