Name: La Damnation de Faust
Start: 2022-11-13T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-11-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Grimaldi Forum

Organization

Ténor

Pene Pati

Faust

Basse

Nicolas Courjal

Méphistophélès

Soprano

Aude Extrémo

Marguerite

Frédéric Caton

Brander

Mise en scène

Jean-Louis Grinda

Direction d'orchestre

Kazuki Yamada

Lumières

Laurent Castaingt

Costumes

Jorge Jara

Décors

Rudy Sabounghi

Video

Gabriel Grinda

Chorégraphie

Eugénie Andrin

Direction de choeur

Stefano Visconti

Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Others

Chœur d'enfants de l'Académie de musique Rainier III

Choeur de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Orchestra

Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

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La Damnation de Faust

Monaco

Grimaldi Forum

Hector Berlioz was so taken with Goethe's Faust that it became the subject of his Op. 1, Huit scènes de Faust, in 1829 when he was still in his mid-twenties. Sixteen years later, he transformed this early work into a légende dramatique containing elements of both opera and cantata—a categorical ambiguity that may have contributed to the work's initial failure at the box office. Expansive in its scope and perspective, it was considered almost impossible to stage fully, even by the composer himself—until 1893, when Raoul Gunsbourg realized the first of many successful stagings to come at the very venue to which it returns for a 2022 blockbuster: the Monte Carlo Opera!

Berlioz's captivating retelling of the Faustian legend has never looked or sounded better than in this new production by Jean-Louis Grinda. A fitting grand finale for Grinda, who will pass the reins to Cecilia Bartoli as the next Monte Carlo Opera Director, La Damnation de Faust is a magnificent spectacle with 300 costumes and 80 singers, including one of the biggest new stars of the lyric stage, Samoan tenor Pene Pati, in the title role; mezzo Aude Extrémo as Marguerite; and acclaimed bass Nicolas Courjal as the devil in the flesh, Mephistopheles himself.

Crédits de représentation (Distribution et équipe de production )

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