A gorgeous new recoding of Berlioz's DAMNATION DE FAUST, on the Erato label, has come my way and it is well-worth investigating. The work has entered the public consciousness with the recent revival ...

This week, unlike last, there were no onstage protests as Russian maestro Valery Gergiev resumed his Berlioz cycle. It was a pity in a way, because the Putin-supporting conductor’s reading of ...

Among the musical versions of the Faust legend (including the operas of Gounod, Boito, and Busoni), Berlioz' Damnation of Faust is unique. Subtitled Dramatic Legend, it was not intended for actual ...

Gardiner is a leaping, rather than walking, advertisement for the adage that age only makes you younger; he tore through the livelier scenes with the sharpest of edges from his Orchestre ...

Starting its 18th season, and its first in sole possession of the Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the Los Angeles Opera took a huge giant step in the right direction: contemporary operatic ...

The opera/cantata/symphony-with-voices mix of Berlioz’s finally achieved crack at the Faust legend has lured concerts and recordings from a range of not especially ...