BBC R4 Documentary - Gounod's 'Faust'
Presented by Huw Edwards
Produced by Kerry Clark
Broadcast November 5, 2005
Coded from tape at 128/44.1

Another in the BBC's intermittent series: 'The Real
History Of Opera', in which Huw Edwards sets an opera
in its contemporary context.

Here he considers claims that in 'Faust', Gounod
turned Goethe's great play into a sentimental romp.

A top drawer edition of this fine programme.
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