Pursuits
Terry Gilliam’s Gas-Chamber ‘Faust’ Is Sick Joke: Review
This article is for subscribers only.
Terry Gilliam, the Monty Python cartoonist and Hollywood film maker, serves up impressive spectacle and insalubrious taste in his Holocaust-based “The Damnation of Faust” at English National Opera in London.
The opera novice turns Berlioz’s 1846 opera-oratorio into a gallows-humor show about the rise of National Socialism.