Opéra Bastille,Paris
Alvis Hermanis’s self-absorbed production gets it all mistaken, but you can’t fault the singing in this star-studded version of Berlioz’s tricky workEven Berlioz didn’t know how to categorise La Damnation de Faust. On the title page he erased his original designation, and Opéra de Concert,in favour of the more romantically inscrutable Légende, later Légende Dramatique. To do this episodic and far from inherently theatrical work on the stage is therefore not easy, and although both Harry Kupfer and Terry Gilliam have pulled it off in recent decades in London.
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Source: theguardian.com