Wilhelm Schwinghammer - Busoni: Doktor Faust - BLU-RAY

Doktor Faust was left incomplete at the time of Busoni's death. Intended as his masterpiece, the opera's genesis was complex and long. Based on Goethe's tragic play, the story of Faust's pact with the devil is well known but the opera's structure represents Busoni's unique conception, cast in two Prologues, a beautiful orchestral Intermezzo and three scenes. Exploring ideas of rationality and metaphysical doubt as well as the concepts of artifice and pretence inherent in operatic performance, the result is one of the most creative and unsettling of Busoni's works.

Christian Thielemann conducts the Sachsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden and Staatskapelle Dresden in works by Wagner and Liszt with tenor Endrik Wottrich.

After it's premiere in 1859, Gounod's Faust was an instant hit, and is still one of France's most popular operas. Based on the play Faust et Marguerite, the work features libretto by Michel Carre. This staging is by director Stefano Poda. InchA triumph that will long remain in the annals as one of the most brilliant stagings not only in this theatre, but in any of today's opera houses...Inch (ResMusica)