Faust

...in a day In this Nov. 4, 2008 file file photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera, Marcello Giordani portrays Faust, in Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust," during the final dress rehearsal at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Giordani...

In this article: La damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz, E-mail, Metropolitan Opera, Madama Butterfly, New York, and All rights reserved

...1942, as Margared in Le roi d'Ys, followed by Faure's Penelope, Dukas's Ariadne, Marguerite in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust and in Gounod's Faust ''. Her debut at the Opera-Comique took place in 1946, as Charlotte in ''Werther, other roles...

In this article: Suzanne Juyol, Carmen, Paris, Tosca, Tristan und Isolde, La damnation de Faust, Le roi d'Ys, Cavalleria rusticana, and Max Lorenz

...in January.) British director Stephen Langridge's new production of "The Damnation of Faust," Lyric's first Berlioz work, will follow a fall revival of Charles Gounod's "Faust," his popular retelling of the German legend. Lyric music...

In this article: Tosca, The Damnation of Faust, Charles Gounod, Emmanuel Villaume, Katya Kabanova, Andrew Davis, Hector Berlioz, Metropolitan Opera, and Chicago

...attendance to witness the presentation of an Angel award to Ofelia Popii for her stunning contribution to Silviu Purcarete's staging of Goethe's Faust. advertisement The show, which its creators never imagined would be seen outside the...

In this article: Marsha Hunt, National Youth Choir of Scotland, and Jimi Hendrix

...previous scale were not so commercially viable. The popular Faust '' (1859) by Charles Gounod started life as an opera comique, and did not become a ''grand opera until rewritten in the 1860s. Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz (composed from...

In this article: Giacomo Meyerbeer, Richard Wagner, Paris, Eugene Scribe, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Hector Berlioz, La Juive, Elie Halevy, and Gaspare Spontini

...level of technological stagecraft to the house. While video and projection entered the opera staging manual years ago, this "Faust" is the Met's first interactive opera. The technology allows the singers' motion and voices, as...

In this article: Robert Lepage, Faust, Mephistopheles, Faust, John Relyea, Metropolitan Opera, and Hallucination

Published: October 30, 2008 HOWEVER you wish to label Berlioz's "Damnation de Faust" a dramatic cantata, scenes from Goethe's "Faust," an opera of the mind, a futuristic musical fantasy or (as Berlioz called it) a "legende...

In this article: La damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz, James Levine, Philip Glass, Metropolitan Opera, Mephistopheles, and Faust