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

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Reviewed at The London Coliseum, London on 8 May 2011
Berlioz, La Damnation de Faust
Edward Gardner, Conductor
Terry Gilliam, Director
Peter Hoare, Faust
Christine Rice, Marguerite
Christopher Purves, Méphistophélès
Nicholas Folwell, Brander
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