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Musically, this is a lone playing: Paul Groves is a sympathetic Faust, Willard White is an meetly minatory Mephistopheles, and Vesselina Kasarova is an well-crafted Margurite.
(However, condolences to those choir members stuck in that laughable cylinder.) Both visual conferring and unbroken are, as stock as a replacement for Arthaus Musik discs, first-rate; plainly the staging itself comes in error as less than fruitful. -Kevin Filipski
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