Several 19th century composers created major works based on Goethe's Faust, but Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust is widely considered the greatest of them all. Scored for 3 solo singers, chorus, and orchestra, it displays all the qualities that make Berlioz so popular: brilliant and innovative orchestration, lyric and dramatic vocal writing, and magnificent choruses. Unabridged republication of an authoritative edition.
Andrea Chenier in Full Score by Umberto Giordano An intense and dramatic story based on the life of Chenier, a French poet, this opera is set amidst the tumult of the French Revolution.
