When Ferruccio Busoni died in 1924, he left his most ambitious opera unfinished. Doktor Faust received its first performance the following year, in a completion by the composer's pupil Philipp Jarnach ...
Any operatic production with the musical expertise and theatrical imagination that have been lavished on the San Francisco Opera's company premiere of Ferruccio Busoni's "Doktor Faust" should by ...
KEENE, N.H. Doktor Faust -- The two great plays about the Faust legend are by an Elizabethan, Christopher Marlowe ("Doctor Faustus") , and a Romantic German, Wolfgang von Goethe ("Faust, Parts 1 and 2 ...
Mit Ferruccio Busonis „Doktor Faust“ erscheint erstmals eine Opernproduktion der Bayerischen Staatsoper bei OehmsClassics. Die Live-Aufnahme der Münchner Erstaufführung in der vom Komponisten ...
The words "neglected masterpiece" have hung around the neck of Ferrucio Busoni's opera Doktor Faust for so long that it is reasonable to ask whether they are truly appropriate. After three quarters of ...
The composer Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) was of mixed Italian-German parentage, but his life and career was spent largely in Berlin. In his lifetime, he was famous throughout Europe and the United ...
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Busoni’s own polemics stressed that, unlike Wagner’s, his words and music fulfilled different functions and that each section of the work had a distinct symphonic form – scene 1 a dance suite, scene 2 ...
Presented here is Jarnach’s version, which Philippe Jordan prefers on musical grounds, “whether it really fits with the rest of the work or not”. He approves of Jarnach’s use of Wagnerian leitmotif ...