Busoni: Doktor Faust (Blu-Ray)

Composer: Ferruccio Busoni
Artists: Dietrich Henschel, Daniel Brenna, Wilhelm Schwinghammer, Joseph Dahdah, Olga Bezsmertna, Florian Stern, Martin Piskorski, Marian Pop, Lukas Konieczny, Marcell Bakonyi, Dominic Barberi, Zachary Wilson, Franz Gürtelschmied, Ewandro Stenzowski, Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Conductor: Cornelius Meister
Director: Davide Livermore
Video Format: 1080i60
Audio Format: PCM Stereo 2.0 / DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Region: All Regions
Language: German
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean
Number of Discs: 1
Studio: Dynamic
Run Time: 166 minutes

Doktor Faust was left incomplete at the time of Busoni’s death. Intended as his masterpiece, the opera’s genesis was complex and long. Based on Goethe’s tragic play, the story of Faust’s pact with the devil is well known, but the opera’s structure represents Busoni’s unique conception, cast in two Prologues, a beautiful orchestral Intermezzo and three scenes. Exploring ideas of rationality and metaphysical doubt as well as the concepts of artifice and pretense inherent in operatic performance, the result is one of the most creative and unsettling of Busoni’s works.

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