La Damnation de Faust

La Damnation de Faust was presented by its composer as a dramatic legend, and it has been offered to the public as an oratorio and as an opera. Hector Berlioz composed its score and joined forces with Gandonnière to write its libretto based upon Goethe ’s Faust in its French translation by Gérard de Nerval . The work was created as an oratorio, and it was performed first in this form at the Opéra-Comique on 6 December 1846. In 1847-48, it was given again under the direction of Berlioz in St…