from Part II, scene 3 of the French opera La Damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz

Libretto: Gérard de Nerval

Role: Brander, a student

Voice Part: bass

Setting: Auerbach's cellar, Leipzig

Synopsis: Urged on by his fellow students, Brander sings a song about a rat and its impending death.

from Part III of the French opera La Damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz

Libretto: Gérard de Nerval

Role: Faust, an old man turned young by Méphistophélès

Voice Part: tenor

Setting: Marguerite's room

Synopsis: Faust finds himself in Marguerite's room and revels at the joy of being in something so close to her.

from Part IV, scene 2 of the French opera La Damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz

Libretto: Gérard de Nerval

Role: Faust, an old man turned young by Méphistophélès

Voice Part: tenor

Setting: A mountain gorge

Synopsis: Faust invokes Nature and all its power.

from Part III of the French opera La Damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz

Libretto: Gérard de Nerval

Role: Marguerite, a young woman

Voice Part: soprano

Setting: Marguerite's room

Synopsis: As Marguerite gets ready to go to sleep, she sings a song about the King of Thule and his life.

from Part IV, scene 1 of the French opera La Damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz

Libretto: Gérard de Nerval

Role: Marguerite, a young woman

Voice Part: soprano

Setting: Marguerite's room

Synopsis: Marguerite is alone and sure that Faust has left her. As she sits at her window, she sorrowfully wonders if he will ever return to her.

from Part III of the French opera La Damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz

Libretto: Gérard de Nerval

Role: Méphistophélès, the devil

Voice Part: bass       Fach: lyric bass

Setting: Marguerite's room

Synopsis: Méphistophélès serenades Marguerite and Faust mockingly about the deceit of man.

from Part II, scene 3 of the French opera La Damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz

Libretto: Gérard de Nerval

Role: Méphistophélès, the devil

Voice Part: bass       Fach: lyric bass

Setting: Auerbach's cellar, Leipzig

Synopsis: After Brander sings his "Song of the Rat", Méphistophélès appears and sings a parody on the song about a king and the flea that lived on him.

from Part II, scene 4 of the French opera La Damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz

Libretto: Gérard de Nerval

Role: Méphistophélès, the devil

Voice Part: bass       Fach: lyric bass

Setting: The banks of the Elbe

Synopsis: As Faust sleeps on the banks, Méphistophélès invokes the spirits to dance around him.