I saw this same team in Amsterdam and at the time, I was thrilled that Graham and Van Dam were in it, I had no idea of who this Kaufamnn guy was. Well, at the performance, I heard a very good tenor holding his own against those two giants and realized that someone up there, surprinsingly, was at the same level. Thanks for sharing this. Great memories
Great performance: Young Pappano , very young Kaufmann..., van Dam, Susan Graham.... And stupendous Jonas, beautiful voice, good looking and charming singer, on the verge of a grand career!
Très émue par tant de beauté - merveilleuse découverte avec 20 ans de retard... magnifiques, ces deux grands artistes, Jonas et Tony, so young and already outstanding! Bravi Messieurs! ❤❤
Berlioz was inspired by a translation of Goethe’s dramatic poem Faust. It is difficult to categorize this work because in some occasions is an oratory of unconventional format and others an opera, but much of the work’s fame derived from its performance in concert that is magnificent.This masterpiece manages to touch us emotionally to the depth of our soul. Berlioz was a fabulous composer and this work is unparalleled in the range of feelings of varying intensity that he conveys to us. The voices of the soloists and the choir are superb in their interpretations. The orchestra and its direction are fantastic. Thanks for this remarkable and unforgettable recording. Finally, a word of praise for the glorious choreography and the fabulous dance body that make up this amazing work. One of the best interpretations I’v seen so far.Bravissimo.!!!
Combien Jonas Kaufmann est beau dans son rôle d'archétype du héros romantique! Et si la mise en scène n'est pas toujours convaincante, la chorégraphie, elle, est très musicale.
I am not a much fan of Hector Berlioz except "Fantastique", but a big, big fan of Jonas Kaufmann. Together with Susan Graham and Van Dam this is a great performance. I wish I can find this CD. Jonas' voice is great in many ways. powerful, subtle, and has great colors.
Tout à fait d'accord. Et quel dommage de ne pas avoir une meilleure image. Je vais tenter via la RTBF qui a réalisé le film. Si oui, je vous tiens au courant via ce site
Un opéra trop peu connu où j'ai beaucoup de plaisir à retrouver José Van Dam toujours distingué et formidable avec notre Jonas Kaufmann tout jeune encore mais si talentueux !
What a fabulous production of a wonderful piece. I love Berlioz and this piece in particular. I know some friends turned off Berlioz by the Dies Irae in the Requiem, hearing only the cacophony. I've had to point them to the sublime music in Faust, the Trojans, L'enfance du Christ, etc. He is one of my favorite composers and i think this production enhances his work. Thank you for posting!
Jonas Kaufmann and Sophie Koch and Bryn Terfel sang it at Opera de Paris Bastille in 2014-15. Hernanis' set, with the figure of Stephen Hawkings in a wheelchair, was controversial and forced, but not uninteresting, and there were sublime effects--and wonderful singing.
Monsieur, Monsieur, Vous êtes tout à fait impossible mais surtout ne changez pas ! C’est lorsque que l’on sait tout qu’on s’aperçoit que l’on ne sait rien.🙏
Welch eine Faszination geht jedesmal wieder von dieser Produktion aus ......... Jonas unbeschreiblich und ich Jose Van Dame dadurch kennengelernt .......... erste Zusammenarbeit mit Antonio Pappano die bis heute erfolgreich anhält ...........
Merveilleux Van Dam.quelle joie de voir cette prestation! J.Kaufmann a déjà le caractere romantique ,un peu sombre qui apparait dans Werther.sa voix avec un superbe legato accroche,very large vocal range.
Merci pour ce commentaire si détaillé et si juste ! En effet Van Dam est un baryton à la fois équilibré, fort et effrayant dans cette partition. Il montre tout son art face à Jonas Kaufmann, qui en 2002 sortait juste (et de merveilleuse manière) de sa crise vocale de 1998. Extrêmement intéressantes, toutes ces remarques sont largement mises en valeur par la musique envoûtante de Berlioz... : D Merci encore ! Listen to JK
Seamless pleasure, what an amazing piece of art. Oh caresser les flammes - was that what she sang? A haunt for insomniacs, in and out of consciousness. Just beautiful. Thank you.
De très belles choses dans cette Damnation...la mise en scène est un peu ridicule avec son crayon géant et son violoncelle mais bon... Une partition magnifique très bien servie, pas toujours facile vocalement...Faust est presque toujours en scène... Kaufmann fait de très jolies choses...tous très bien....merci !!
Thank you Viv for downloading this for us. I lost the entire opera which I had kept in the file - it was withdrawn. So I really appreciate getting it back. I answered the question down below. Your sound quality is excellent! Than you again. C
Berlioz learned from Goethe that he, Berlioz, was both scholar-but-dull Faust (from his strict bourgeois parents) and firebrand-bit-of-a-lad Mephisto (from his unrestricted guitar playing and messing about in Italy ... ). Thus, "La Damnation" is a superb symphony of the "private soul" - as earlier had been the "Fantastic Symphony" and "Harold" - BUT, thanks to Shakespeare, Gluck and Spontini, we are BLESSED to cherish this masterpiece ...
I love Susan Graham, too. She was wonderful in this. They had perform ed together before this at La Monnaie and Dresden performances. They had sang together in April 2001 in Toulouse in Thomas' Mignon. So their chemistry was good although Graham was much more of a veteran at this point .
Susan Graham just sang this part with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Paul Groves was Faust, it was sensational! She is the true Diva and she totally mesmerised us...Brava!
Marvelous! Berlioz music is fluid...it is flowing, it is millions of Higgs bosons embracing and electrifying...you have to stop breathing at times to better hear the sounds...Great voices! However, I have no idea what to do about the gigantic pencils...
Ich weiss nicht was alle immer an Jonas Kaufmann haben, seine Stimme ist total baritonal gefärbt, wo es ins orange hellgelbe gehen sollte bietet er ein hellbraun, gerade mal ocker.
And I don't know why people keep obsessing about the baritonal element to Jonas's voice. As I understand it, the actual music notes composed by Berlioz are scored for a tenor, written in the tenor range under a tenor cleff (the treble.) Therefore it is sang by a tenor capable of producing the highest notes written alongside the middle and lower notes of the register. What I am getting at is that, although Jonas Kaufmann's voice sounds "deep" he is singing at the pitch of a tenor. He has this unique sound of strength and support and can, indeed, get down into the baritone range when required. I think it's a fantastic voice and very rare. There again, I also enjoy listening to basses and baritones and I really think describing the baritone voice as "light brown, just ochre" is rather an insult to such a gorgeous sound on the tonal register.
Van Dam está un poco gastado vocalmente, pero lo salva con su oficio y experiencia. Kaufmann está soberbio. Le van mucho estos personajes románticos. Graham, como siempre, una delicia. Y la dirección de Pappano, magnífica.
Jonas tu voz me hace pensar en el milagro de la Voz humana que en tu caso sucede una vez cada cien años cuida mucho ese Milagro que Dios te ha regalado
Superb,I wish I saw it in person but then,I have not found this genius,Jonas Kaufmann then,at least thanks utube for uploading this magnificent opera,jk is so beautiful more when he was this age but his voice too was a miracle 15:09 😊 15:28 15:35
Love Susan Graham here. But I get moments of silence here and there, where the sound is just gone, moments of mute. Problem with the upload or on my end?
@@gorankatic40000bc That's the way I discovered Boris ... But if you see how we have this document , you'll see it's a Belgian Television program , and we have the subtitles in French . A production of RTV should have Spanish subtitles, of BBC, English subtitles ... logical (it's a 30 years old production) . Why asking a translation it's so easy to find on Google? I didn't like your "we need" ....
The Google translation of your comment into English translates your "engolada" as "cantankerous"! You'll have to look that up perhaps, but I assure you, the translation is hilariously wrong. Don't worry, though, we all understand what "engolada" means, and you're right!👍🇺🇸😁
This is severely underrated, and not performed as much as it should be, a truly sublime piece, same with les troyens. Poor Berlioz, And the irony, he struggled desperately to have his work performed during his lifetime and was often ridiculed. Wagner completely dismissed him and his work. Thank god, nothing is what it seems. Noel 🌹
In my opinion, this opera is best viewed in a CONCERT performance--e.g. Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony with Jose Van Dam singing Mephistopheles. It just does not play well when staged.
In my experience, modern directors/conductors do not care at all about what writers/composers intended. They feel somehow entitled to ‘make it their own.’ (No doubt that is how the very elegant and dignified José van Dam ended up with slick black hair and a yellow suit in the production in question.) I personally have given up writing plays for that very reason. If someone mucks about with a copyrighted novel, short story or poem, one can sue.
I agree Susan. I cant get used to Kauffman on his own and no sign of the orchestra or the conductor. I like Pappano but I do like to see him conduct. I have Solti on DVD which is the one you are probably referring to
Jonas is wonderful in the lyric french repertoire. He should never have tried to sing heavy Puccini or Verdi roles. Susan Graham and Jose van Dam both rule this music. Wierd setting but nice orchestra and chorus under Pappano.
wow, je n'ai jamais vue ou entendu kaufmann si jeune, merci. sa voie est un peut luse douce que maintenand, surtout dans les plus haute notes.@@babinesrouges5128
Musically, the performance is absolutely incredible. What a cast. The production though is pure pretentious Eurotrash nonsense. What's with all the giant pencils?
Glorious voices singing this wonderful music. Kaufmann should have stuck to lyric roles instead of pushing his voice in dramatic roles not suited to his voice type. Graham in one of her signature roles and van Dam magnificent. The setting does not do justice to Berlioz's wonderful score.
Faust gets a bad rap here. Gretchen is saved because she "did it for love" as the angels sing at the conclusion of the opera.Faust signed his soul over to mephisto not for riches or fame but to spring Gretchen from jail. Is not that doing it for love? He should have gone to Heaven.
Clearly, Berlioz didn't try to create a very deep or coherent story, here. The story is just a pretext for music. The ending, particularly, is meant at creating extreme contrast, as an exploration of the depth of duality of the human soul.
The famous Russian writer Bulgakov made a number of references to this opera in his novel "Master and Margarita". He too was unhappy about Berlioz separating Faust and Margarita like that in the end. In revenge, the character in the novel named after Berlioz has his head separated from his body right in the first chapter. Seems fair.
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I saw this same team in Amsterdam and at the time, I was thrilled that Graham and Van Dam were in it,
I had no idea of who this Kaufamnn guy was.
Well, at the performance, I heard a very good tenor holding his own against those two giants and realized that someone up there, surprinsingly, was at the same level.
Thanks for sharing this. Great memories
Great performance: Young Pappano , very young Kaufmann..., van Dam, Susan Graham....
And stupendous Jonas, beautiful voice, good looking and charming singer, on the verge of a grand career!
Es ist lange her . . . aber immer noch faszinierend zu hören . . . Wunderbar! Eine großartige Aufführung!
Très émue par tant de beauté - merveilleuse découverte avec 20 ans de retard... magnifiques, ces deux grands artistes, Jonas et Tony, so young and already outstanding! Bravi Messieurs! ❤❤
Berlioz was inspired by a translation of Goethe’s dramatic poem Faust. It is difficult to categorize this work because in some occasions is an oratory of unconventional format and others an opera, but much of the work’s fame derived from its performance in concert that is magnificent.This masterpiece manages to touch us emotionally to the depth of our soul. Berlioz was a fabulous composer and this work is unparalleled in the range of feelings of varying intensity that he conveys to us.
The voices of the soloists and the choir are superb in their interpretations. The orchestra and its direction are fantastic. Thanks for this remarkable and unforgettable recording. Finally, a word of praise for the glorious choreography and the fabulous dance body that make up this amazing work. One of the best interpretations I’v seen so far.Bravissimo.!!!
Junger J.Kaufmann hervorragend ! Schon Damals unverleichbar.
Combien Jonas Kaufmann est beau dans son rôle d'archétype du héros romantique! Et si la mise en scène n'est pas toujours convaincante, la chorégraphie, elle, est très musicale.
Willard White was a great Mephisto as well
Csodas hang ,gyönyörű kiejtés !
I am not a much fan of Hector Berlioz except "Fantastique", but a big, big fan of Jonas Kaufmann. Together with Susan Graham and Van Dam this is a great performance. I wish I can find this CD. Jonas' voice is great in many ways. powerful, subtle, and has great colors.
Magnifique, une splendeur
Tout à fait d'accord. Et quel dommage de ne pas avoir une meilleure image. Je vais tenter via la RTBF qui a réalisé le film. Si oui, je vous tiens au courant via ce site
Non ,beau, mais pour moi, pas une splendeur.
Un opéra trop peu connu où j'ai beaucoup de plaisir à retrouver José Van Dam toujours distingué et formidable avec notre Jonas Kaufmann tout jeune encore mais si talentueux !
Ce n'est pas un opéra et il est mondialement connu
Ce n'est pas opéra, mais par ailleurs une œuvre mondialement connue
@@olivierteitgen4061 on ne peut pas connaitre tous les opéras bien que passionnée et Berlioz n'est pas mon compositeur préféré !
Best version I've ever seen of La Damnation. He was so good then.
What a fabulous production of a wonderful piece. I love Berlioz and this piece in particular. I know some friends turned off Berlioz by the Dies Irae in the Requiem, hearing only the cacophony. I've had to point them to the sublime music in Faust, the Trojans, L'enfance du Christ, etc. He is one of my favorite composers and i think this production enhances his work. Thank you for posting!
De acuerdo a mi percepción, solo puedo decir: OBRA PORTENTOSA Y SUBLIME; AGRADEZCO DE CORAZON A QUIEN NOS HACE ESTE REGALO MUSICAL TAN MARAVILLOSO.
Jonas Kaufmann and Sophie Koch and Bryn Terfel sang it at Opera de Paris Bastille in 2014-15. Hernanis' set, with the figure of Stephen Hawkings in a wheelchair, was controversial and forced, but not uninteresting, and there were sublime effects--and wonderful singing.
Monsieur, Monsieur,
Vous êtes tout à fait impossible mais surtout ne changez pas !
C’est lorsque que l’on sait tout qu’on s’aperçoit que l’on ne sait rien.🙏
This is a wonderful outstanding production ! GREAT, GREAT !
Invisiblesoloaqui it is indeed simply outstanding! So tastefully done and the singing, especially Diva Susan Graham is just supernatural.
Welch eine Faszination geht jedesmal wieder von dieser Produktion aus ......... Jonas unbeschreiblich und ich Jose Van Dame dadurch kennengelernt .......... erste Zusammenarbeit mit Antonio Pappano die bis heute erfolgreich anhält ...........
Desde mucho tiempo se destaca como gran intérprete y artista
Merveilleux Van Dam.quelle joie de voir cette prestation! J.Kaufmann a déjà le caractere romantique ,un peu sombre qui apparait dans Werther.sa voix avec un superbe legato accroche,very large vocal range.
Merci pour ce commentaire si détaillé et si juste ! En effet Van Dam est un baryton à la fois équilibré, fort et effrayant dans cette partition. Il montre tout son art face à Jonas Kaufmann, qui en 2002 sortait juste (et de merveilleuse manière) de sa crise vocale de 1998. Extrêmement intéressantes, toutes ces remarques sont largement mises en valeur par la musique envoûtante de Berlioz... : D
Merci encore !
Listen to JK
nicole reding-hourcade I
Seamless pleasure, what an amazing piece of art. Oh caresser les flammes - was that what she sang? A haunt for insomniacs, in and out of consciousness. Just beautiful. Thank you.
"Ah, caresses de flamme !"
Kaufmann’s voice is superb!
Tut mir leid, ich finde seine Stimme deplaziert. Hier wird eine Tenorstimme verlangt und seine Stimme hat einen Bariton
ja toachten kerl singt besser@@AndreEssen
De très belles choses dans cette Damnation...la mise en scène est un peu ridicule avec son crayon géant et son violoncelle mais bon... Une partition magnifique très bien servie, pas toujours facile vocalement...Faust est presque toujours en scène... Kaufmann fait de très jolies choses...tous très bien....merci !!
I saw this again. Now I have become to appreciate this Berlioz music. Great production, great performance, great conducting of Antonio Pappano
Merci
Very nice mouce
merveilleux!!!
UN DELEITE
Thank you Viv for downloading this for us. I lost the entire opera which I had kept in the file - it was withdrawn. So I really appreciate getting it back. I answered the question down below.
Your sound quality is excellent! Than you again. C
It is not an opera
Good.
What a score.....❤
Wow, this is a wonderful experience. Its beautiful, brings tears to my eyes. Thank you for sharing this. All the best to you.
I'm not a fan of Berlioz but I'm a fan of Jonas Kaufmann. Marvelous performance. Thank you for publishing.
I am 100% with you. Jonas is marvelous here as everywhere else.
Hello Takeko!
Jonas Kaufmann. My pleasure.
I'm Canadian so I enjoy your wonderful singing on youtube and also several of your recording and DVD.
@Jonas kaufman No, thank you!!! I will send my e-mail.
Loved every moment. Thank you.
Berlioz learned from Goethe that he, Berlioz, was both scholar-but-dull Faust (from his strict bourgeois parents) and firebrand-bit-of-a-lad Mephisto (from his unrestricted guitar playing and messing about in Italy ... ).
Thus, "La Damnation" is a superb symphony of the "private soul" - as earlier had been the "Fantastic Symphony" and "Harold" - BUT, thanks to Shakespeare, Gluck and Spontini, we are BLESSED to cherish this masterpiece ...
Wow, I never thought I would hear such a beautiful sound from Kaufmann’s voice 🎶😻
This is touching!
Absolument magnifique, éblouissant!
I love Susan Graham, too. She was wonderful in this. They had perform
ed together before this at La Monnaie and Dresden performances. They had sang together in April 2001 in Toulouse in Thomas' Mignon. So their chemistry was good although Graham was much more of a veteran at this point
.
Susan Graham just sang this part with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Paul Groves was Faust, it was sensational! She is the true Diva and she totally mesmerised us...Brava!
Superbe !
Marvelous! Berlioz music is fluid...it is flowing, it is millions of Higgs bosons embracing and electrifying...you have to stop breathing at times to better hear the sounds...Great voices! However, I have no idea what to do about the gigantic pencils...
Premiered #otd in 1846 🌺🌺🌺
Спасибо за возможность видеть и слышать и восхищаться
: )
Не за что !
Listen to JK
Berlioz = The greatest musical genius from France?!
Un des plus grands oui...
n'oublie pas rameau
The cast, Direcor and everything is at the end of the Opera as Credits.
MARAVILLOSA
Ich weiss nicht was alle immer an Jonas Kaufmann haben, seine Stimme ist total baritonal gefärbt, wo es ins orange hellgelbe gehen sollte bietet er ein hellbraun, gerade mal ocker.
And I don't know why people keep obsessing about the baritonal element to Jonas's voice. As I understand it, the actual music notes composed by Berlioz are scored for a tenor, written in the tenor range under a tenor cleff (the treble.) Therefore it is sang by a tenor capable of producing the highest notes written alongside the middle and lower notes of the register. What I am getting at is that, although Jonas Kaufmann's voice sounds "deep" he is singing at the pitch of a tenor. He has this unique sound of strength and support and can, indeed, get down into the baritone range when required. I think it's a fantastic voice and very rare.
There again, I also enjoy listening to basses and baritones and I really think describing the baritone voice as "light brown, just ochre" is rather an insult to such a gorgeous sound on the tonal register.
He was not here the excellent actor he became later, but his voice was young and lovely as a way of compensation.
Una voz que enamora♥️🎶♥️
Van Dam está un poco gastado vocalmente, pero lo salva con su oficio y experiencia. Kaufmann está soberbio. Le van mucho estos personajes románticos. Graham, como siempre, una delicia. Y la dirección de Pappano, magnífica.
Here he is so young. Wonderful voice !!! Only I don't understand the subtitles. Of course I know the story.
Jonas tu voz me hace pensar en el milagro de la
Voz humana que en tu caso sucede una vez cada cien años cuida mucho ese
Milagro que
Dios te ha regalado
Superb,I wish I saw it in person but then,I have not found this genius,Jonas Kaufmann then,at least thanks utube for uploading this magnificent opera,jk is so beautiful more when he was this age but his voice too was a miracle 15:09 😊 15:28 15:35
Superior, thanks for uploading 17:07
1:40 It always gets me
Love Susan Graham here. But I get moments of silence here and there, where the sound is just gone, moments of mute. Problem with the upload or on my end?
la produccion es muy buena. gracias
me gustaria conocer el año de la representacion y el nombre de ella
Tiene la repuesta en el inicio de la proyeccion.
Best version ever : Paris, Bastille, 2006
We need English subtitles!
Agreed! The singing is outstanding. It would be nice to understand what they signing. Deep emotion is better appreciated when understood
OOOhhh, poor boy ! it's not the way to "absorb" an opera. Read the story of Faust , or ... go to read it on Google . It's easy to find
@@gorankatic40000bc That's the way I discovered Boris ... But if you see how we have this document , you'll see it's a Belgian Television program , and we have the subtitles in French . A production of RTV should have Spanish subtitles, of BBC, English subtitles ... logical (it's a 30 years old production) . Why asking a translation it's so easy to find on Google?
I didn't like your "we need" ....
çà manque d'éclairage dommage ! la voix d e Jonas merveilleuse , la traduction bravo !
Вы восхитительны вэтой опере, все игра и голос, но нет перевода на English, жаль.Благодарю за просмотр!!!
Yong Jonas...💖❤️😻
not a big opera fan but I like this one better than the rest.
1:55:57 why is there a double bass on stage?
la voz de kaufmann suena menos engolada que actualmente , aunque se le aprecia
la querencia
Ele é excelente no repertório lírico francês. Pena ter cambiado para Verdi e Puccini, a voz se tornou pesada e engolada.
The Google translation of your comment into English translates your "engolada" as "cantankerous"! You'll have to look that up perhaps, but I assure you, the translation is hilariously wrong. Don't worry, though, we all understand what "engolada" means, and you're right!👍🇺🇸😁
Больше понравилось, чем с Аланья
Not quite what I expected but it's still excellent
La plupart des envois ne sont pas visibles sur mon appareilLes films ont un son inaudibleLes oeuvres sont centenaires et decrepies
42:01
This is severely underrated, and not performed as much as it should be, a truly sublime piece, same with les troyens. Poor Berlioz, And the irony, he struggled desperately to have his work performed during his lifetime and was often ridiculed. Wagner completely dismissed him and his work. Thank god, nothing is what it seems. Noel 🌹
Not true that Wagner "completely dismissed" Berlioz and his work....Wagner's stance on Berlioz' work was a mixture of admiration and criticism.
1:52:48
When was this filmed ? This is a much younger Jonas Kaufmann.
2002
In my opinion, this opera is best viewed in a CONCERT performance--e.g. Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony with Jose Van Dam singing Mephistopheles. It just does not play well when staged.
Berlioz never intended this work for the stage....it is (similar to his Roméo et Juliette) more of a dramatic symphony....
In my experience, modern directors/conductors do not care at all about what writers/composers intended. They feel somehow entitled to ‘make it their own.’ (No doubt that is how the very elegant and dignified José van Dam ended up with slick black hair and a yellow suit in the production in question.) I personally have given up writing plays for that very reason. If someone mucks about with a copyrighted novel, short story or poem, one can sue.
I agree Susan. I cant get used to Kauffman on his own and no sign of the orchestra or the conductor. I like Pappano but I do like to see him conduct. I have Solti on DVD which is the one you are probably referring to
It is best viewed in a concert performance for the fact it is not an opera. Berlioz named it a "Dramatic legend"
I saw a fantastic stage production in Frankfurt just yesterday.
Is the original, full-quality version of this performance available for purchase anywhere, either on video or just audio?
Jonas is wonderful in the lyric french repertoire. He should never have tried to sing heavy Puccini or Verdi roles. Susan Graham and Jose van Dam both rule this music. Wierd setting but nice orchestra and chorus under Pappano.
Jean de florette
Une distribution de rève
En quel année est-ce que cette pièce a été enregistrer?
Enregistrée en 2002 à La Monnaie, dit le générique de fin...
wow, je n'ai jamais vue ou entendu kaufmann si jeune, merci. sa voie est un peut luse douce que maintenand, surtout dans les plus haute notes.@@babinesrouges5128
Musically, the performance is absolutely incredible. What a cast. The production though is pure pretentious Eurotrash nonsense. What's with all the giant pencils?
They must be in Pencilvania.
@@AvatarYoda Haha bravo!
Allez écouter ruclips.net/video/AuAQAJhT6Sk/видео.html, c'est autre chose !
Good production !
But I don't understand a word Kaufmann sings... And I'm french !!!
And I am not french , but I can understand every word he is singing!😉☺️
And I’m French and I understand everything he sings. His diction is perfect, I think.
Pouvez-vous lire les sous-titres?
Glorious voices singing this wonderful music. Kaufmann should have stuck to lyric roles instead of pushing his voice in dramatic roles not suited to his voice type. Graham in one of her signature roles and van Dam magnificent. The setting does not do justice to Berlioz's wonderful score.
Direction molle, manque de relief et d'entrain. Les nuances de la partition sont souvent gommées
Faust gets a bad rap here. Gretchen is saved because she "did it for love" as the angels sing at the conclusion of the opera.Faust signed his soul over to mephisto not for riches or fame but to spring Gretchen from jail. Is not that doing it for love? He should have gone to Heaven.
Clearly, Berlioz didn't try to create a very deep or coherent story, here. The story is just a pretext for music. The ending, particularly, is meant at creating extreme contrast, as an exploration of the depth of duality of the human soul.
@@marcpeycker In the depths of the human soul there is no duality. Love is not divided - yep, should have gone to heaven!
The famous Russian writer Bulgakov made a number of references to this opera in his novel "Master and Margarita". He too was unhappy about Berlioz separating Faust and Margarita like that in the end. In revenge, the character in the novel named after Berlioz has his head separated from his body right in the first chapter. Seems fair.
mah, io salverei solo Pappano e Van Dam, veramente pessimo il coro
16:58... août 2007...
Les Monts du Matin - Jean Delmarty
33:35