BOITO : MEFISTOFELE

Radio New Zealand Concert network
Sunday 30th of October 2011 at 3.03 - 5.20 pm

BOÏTO: Mefistofele, an opera in four acts with prologue and epilogue
Mefistofele.............................. Ferruccio Furlanetto
Faust...................................... Giuseppe Filianoti
Margherita/Helen of Troy........ Dimitra Theodossiou
Marta..................................... Sonia Zaramella
Wagner.................................. Mimmo Ghegghi
Pantalis................................... Monica Minarelli
Teatro Massimo, Palermo Chorus & Orch/Stefano Ranzini (Naxos 8.660248)

INTRODUCTION 
SYNOPSIS
LIBRETTO (Italian)

In this version of the FAUST story, though Mefistofele igets top billing in the title, he is still the villain, and he loses out in the end, as first Margarita (Gretchen = Gretel) and then Faust find redemption and go to sing in the heavenly choir. (This is going one better than Gounod.)

I have two recordings of MEFISTOFELE and one of NERONE. If you like this Naxos recording you can buy it!

GOETHE IN MUSIC
"Music begins where words end" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)