FULL La Damnation de Faust Monte Carlo 2022 Aude Extrémo, Pene Pati, Nicolas Courjal

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: La Damnation de Faust  
• Composer: Berlioz Hector  
• Libretto: Hector Berlioz, Almire Gandonniere    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Salle des Princes, Grimaldi Forum, Monte Carlo, Monaco  
• Recorded: November 16, 2022
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Aude Extrémo, Pene Pati, Nicolas Courjal, Frédéric Caton, Galia Bakalov
• Conductor: Kazuki Yamada  
• Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Monte-Carlo  
• Chorus: Chœur de l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Chœur d’enfants de l’Académie de Musique Rainier III  
• Chorus Master: Stefano Visconti  
• Choreographer: Eugénie Andrin  
• Stage Director: Jean-Louis Grinda   
• Stage Designer: Rudy Sabounghi  
• Costume Designer: Jorge Jara   
• Lighting Designer: Laurent Castaingt  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: medici, mezzo  
• Date Published: 2022  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Almost forty years after the creation of La Damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz, Raoul Gunsbourg, brilliant director of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, provided a resounding answer to the dilemma that animated the musical world of the 19th century: La Damnation de Faust was it an oratorio (dramatic legend) as announced or a real work intended for the theater? By staging the work of Berlioz, Gunsbourg freed himself from a taboo and accomplished a masterstroke. The Monegasque stage, known as a luxurious opera house where one could admire the most famous throats of the time, was then placed in the heart of Europe as an intense center of creation. The impact of this first iconoclastic and phantasmagorical staging is such that it will secure a special place for Berlioz’s work on international operatic stages.

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