Gounod's Faust
Acts One and Two
Saturday 30 April 2005 18:30-19:25 (Radio 3)
Roberto Alagna and Soile Isokoski star in a new Metropolitan Opera production of this ever-popular French opera. Presented from New York by Margaret Juntwait.
During a visit from the debonair Mephistopheles, the despairing and elderly philosopher Faust is manipulated into surrendering his immortal soul in exchange for the alluring promise of eternal youth and the love of a beautiful woman.
Playlist:
Marguerite ...... Soile Isokoski (soprano)
Siebel ...... Kristine Jepson (mezzo-soprano)
Faust ...... Roberto Alagna (tenor)
Valentin ...... Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
Mephistopheles ...... Rene Pape (bass)
Marthe ...... Jane Bunnell (mezzo-soprano)
Wagner ...... Patrick Carfizzi
Chorus and Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera
James Levine (conductor)
[Continues at 7.50pm after The Met Opera Quiz]
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