Faust, Opera Bastille, Paris: 28 June-13 July 2022

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An emblem of French opera, just like Bizet's Carmen, Faust is a hybrid between a fantasy-romantic Grand Opéra and a comic opera.

  • Drawing on the myth popularised by Goethe, Gounod achieves a skilful balance between spectacular and intimate scenes, and offers us a multitude of highly inspired melodic pages engraved in the collective memory. Benjamin Bernheim returns to a role upon which he has already made his mark, under the baton of Thomas Hengelbrock and in a production by Tobias Kratzer.

    Faust

    opera in five acts (1859)

    • Music:

      Charles Gounod - (1818-1893)

    • Libretto:

      Jules Barbier

      Michel Carré

    • Conductor:

      Thomas Hengelbrock

    • Director:

      Tobias Kratzer

    • Set design, Costume design:

      Rainer Sellmaier

    • Lighting design:

      Michael Bauer

    • Video:

      Manuel Braun

    • Chorus master:

      Ching-Lien Wu

    Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris

  • Cast


    • Faust:

      • Benjamin Bernheim

    • Méphistophélès:

      • Christian Van Horn

    • Valentin:

      • Florian Sempey

    • Wagner:

      • Guilhem Worms

    • Marguerite:

      • Angel Blue

    • Siebel:

      • Emily D'angelo

    • Dame Marthe:

      • Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo

Faust 20-21 © Monika Rittershaus - OnP
Faust 20-21 © Monika Rittershaus - OnP

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