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Front Row: Terry Gilliam's The Damnation of Faust

Terry Gilliam's The Damnation of Faust

09/05/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Terry Gilliam's The Damnation of Faust

With Kirsty Lang, who reviews film maker Terry Gilliam's debut as an opera director.

With Kirsty Lang, including a review of film-maker Terry Gilliam's debut as an opera director, with a production of The Damnation of Faust by Berlioz for English National Opera.

With Kirsty Lang.

Terry Gilliam, of Monty Python fame, is the latest in a series of film directors to be invited to direct for English National Opera. His choice of piece - The Damnation of Faust by Berlioz - is an unconventional work, based on Goethe's Faust, which lies somewhere between opera and oratorio and has long orchestral sections inviting plenty of theatrical interpretation. Critic Andrew Dickson gives his verdict.

In the new film The Way, Emilio Estevez directs his father Martin Sheen, who plays an American in France, recovering the body of his estranged son, who has died whilst travelling "el camino de Santiago" pilgrimage. Kate Saunders is Front Row's reviewer. 

Singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier discusses her highly personal latest album, The Foundling, in which she writes about the ongoing pain of being left by her mother at an orphanage shortly after she was born.

How do directors of arts festivals draw in audiences and balance the books at a time of financial constraint? Maria Bota from the Salisbury Festival and William Galinsky from the Norfolk and Norwich Festival discuss how they plan to meet the challenge. 

Producer Rebecca Nicholson.

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