The Damnation of Faust, BBC Prom 31, Royal Albert Hall, RAH, August 2017
Posted on 9 August 2017Opera at the Proms is one of the glories of the summer season, allowing music and singers to communicate directly, with no director’s vision getting in the way. Two nights ago, Khovanshchina helped lay bare the soul of Russia, and now Berlioz’s magnificent musical evocation on the Faust myth, where the brilliant scholar veers into …