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2024 / AROP evening / Opera
26 Sep.

Faust

Première

    Opéra Bastille

    19h

    Duration
    3h50

    Dress Cocktail attire

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  • 1st part
    19h00
  • Intermission cocktail
    19h50
  • 2nd part
    20h15
  • Intermission cocktail
    21h10
  • 3rd part
    21h30
  • End of the performance
    22h50

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”.

Faust

Faust - production de Tobias Kratzer

  • Music

    Charles Gounod

  • Conductor
    Emmanuel Villaume
  • Chorus master
    Alessandro Di Stefano

  • Libretto

    Jules Barbier

  • Libretto

    Michel Carré

  • Director

    Tobias Kratzer

  • Set design, Costume design

    Rainer Sellmaier

  • Lighting design

    Michael Bauer

  • Video

    Manuel Braun

Cast

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Pene
Pati

Faust

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Alex
Esposito

Méphistophélès

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Amina Edris

Marguerite

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Florian
Sempey

Valentin

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Amin
Ahangaran

Wagner

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Marina
Viotti

Siebel

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Sylvie
Brunet-Grupposo

Dame Marthe

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Marc
Diabira

Aged Faust

The Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus