AROP evening — Opera

Faust

26 Sep. 2024

  • 3h50 with 2 intermissions
  • Première
  • Opéra Bastille
  • Cocktail attire

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

  • Marguerite

    Amina Edris

  • Valentin

    Florian Sempey

  • Wagner

    Amin Ahangaran

  • Siebel

    Marina Viotti

  • Dame Marthe

    Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo

  • Aged Faust

    Marc Diabira

  • 19:00

    First part

  • 19:50

    Intermission cocktail

  • 20:15

    Second part

  • 21:10

    Intermission cocktail

  • 21:30

    Third part

  • 22:50

    End of the performance

Faust (saison 24/25) - Acte 1 - Salut O Mon Dernier Matin

1 podcast

[EXTRAIT] FAUST de Gounod - "Il était un roi de Thulé" (Amina Edris)

1 video

[EXTRAIT] FAUST de Gounod - "Versez vos chagrins dans mon âme !" (Marina Viotti)

1 video

[EXTRAIT] FAUST de Gounod - "Avant de quitter ces lieux" (Florian Sempey)

1 video

[EXTRAIT] FAUST de Gounod - "Ah! je ris de me voir si belle en ce miroir" (Amina Edris)

1 video

Faust by Charles Gounod (season 24/25)

24 images