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Live from the Met: Doktor Faust
A rare opportunity to hear Busoni's crowning achievement. Mephistopheles's pact with Faust serves as the backdrop for a dramatic and moving meditation on the responsibilities of artistic creativity. Left unfinished at the composer's death in 1924, Doktor Faust is part mystery play, part festival play and part Passion. And
Rodney Milnes continues his series Opera Snaps - a sideways glance at each of this season's works.
Busoni Doktor Faust
Chorus and Orchestra of the New York
Metropolitan Opera, conductor Philippe Auguin Act
7.40 Interval: Met Opera Quiz
William Livingstone puts listeners' questions to Michelle Krisel , Lotfi Mansouri and Alan Wagner.
8.00 Opera Snaps
8.05 Act 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Doktor Faust
Unknown:
Rodney Milnes
Conductor:
Philippe Auguin
Unknown:
William Livingstone
Unknown:
Michelle Krisel
Unknown:
Lotfi Mansouri
Unknown:
Alan Wagner.
Doktor Faust:
Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Wagner:
Peter Rose (bass)
Mephistopheles:
Robert Brubaker (tenor)
Duke of Parma:
David Kuebler (tenor)
Duchess of Parma:
Katarina Dalayman (soprano)
Master of Ceremonies:
Peter Rose (bass)
Source: Radio Times

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