Faust

Faust - production de Tobias Kratzer

• Conductor

  Emmanuel Villaume; Alessandro Di Stefano

• Music

  Charles Gounod

• Libretto

  Jules Barbier

• Libretto

  Michel Carré

• Director

  Tobias Kratzer

• Set design, Costume design

  Rainer Sellmaier

• Lighting design

  Michael Bauer

• Video

  Manuel Braun

Selling his soul to the devil for eternal youth is Faust’s – inevitably risky – gamble. By joining forces with the diabolical Mephistopheles, the elderly scholar recovers a youthfulness that allows him to win over the beautiful Marguerite, but at what cost?

When Charles Gounod set to work on the myth made famous by Goethe, he had not yet known any true success. The melodic invention and dramatic intensity of his Faust, premiered in 1859 at the Théâtre Lyrique, changed all that. Although Carré and Barbier’s libretto focused more on Marguerite’s fall and redemption than on the hero’s metaphysical dimension, this did not prevent the work from becoming a national monument, inspiring even Hergé, whose Castafiore sings the famous “Jewel song”.

Tobias Kratzer’s staging, with its spectacular videos, conjures up a contemporary Paris, a grandiose setting and a place of iniquity for young people struggling with their inner fears.  

The Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Faust

Faust - production de Tobias Kratzer

• Faust

  Pene Pati

• Méphistophélès

  Alex Esposito

• Valentin

  Florian Sempey

• Wagner

  Amin Ahangaran

• Marguerite

  Amina Edris

• Siebel

  Marina Viotti

• Dame Marthe

  Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo