Opera review: Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust conducted by Rattle

With more than 100 members of the London Symphony Chorus crammed onto the platform along with a full-size orchestra that fielded among other instruments four harps, two tubas, and six basses, it was suddenly clear that Rattle’s argument for a new supersize concert hall in the City has something going for it.  Berlioz’s treatment of […]