What the papers said:

James Levine, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, had a tendency to let things take their own course, while relishing, as anyone would, such glories as the invigorating 'Rákóczy March', or pointing up the instrumental detail that makes Berlioz’s scores so translucent. In fact, while this concert was mourning the loss of the great Pavarotti voice and personality, it was the orchestra that made the strongest impact.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

The Belgian bass-baritone Jose van Dam looked suitably satanic as Mephistopheles, while singing the role as robustly as he did for Georg Solti at the Proms almost 20 years ago. Marcello Giordani's Faust had wonderfully lyric moments but shared the tendency of Yvonne Naef's Marguerite to fray in the top register.
THE OBSERVER

The orchestra gleamed from top to toe, not a quiver of a quaver out of place: brass formidably bright, singing strings, woodwinds clean as a whistle. This technical polish was very Bostonian. But did it really suit Berlioz? In a drama stamped with diabolical tricks and human folly it was disconcerting to find so much of the night’s massed music-making scrubbed free of character as well as mistakes.
THE TIMES