Hector Berlioz
LA DAMNATION DE FAUST
From the Royal Albert Hall 1989
Opera in Four Acts
Libretto by Hector Berlioz, Almire Gandonnière et Gérard de Nerval
Sung in French

CONCERT PERFORMANCE
ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER, KEITH LEWIS, JOSÉ VAN DAM, PETER ROSE
Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, SIR GEORG SOLTI
Directed by RODNEY GREENBERG

Sound Format: PCM Stereo
Picture Format: 4:3
Region Code: 0 worldwide
Menu Languages: D, F, GB, SP
Running Time: 127 min
DVD 9 / NTSC

Not available in Japan or Korea

Cat no.: 102023

This live recording was made at the Royal Albert Hall during one of London's famous Promenade Concert seasons in 1989. Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a magnificent performance of Berlioz's concert cantata.
This feast of Berlioz launched Solti's farewell tour with the orchestra he had directed for twenty years and was described by The Times as "the unsurpassable culmination of two decades of music-making...one that summarised all that has been most admirable about Solti's long reign in Chicago."
"Like reading the book by flashes of lightning" was how one writer described the relationship of Berlioz to Goethe in this 'Dramatic Legend' and with soloists of such greatness as that of Sophie Von Otter, Keith Lewis, Jose Van Dam and Peter Rose, lightning is certainly how this new release affects the listener - bright, brilliant and full of excitement.