Organization

Stage director

Tobias Kratzer

Conductor

Thomas Hengelbrock

Lighting designer

Michael Bauer

Costume designer

Rainer Sellmaier

Set designer

Video designer

Chorus master

Chin-Lien Wu

Singer

Tenor

Benjamin Bernheim

Faust

Bass

Christian Van Horn

Mephistopheles

Soprano

Angel Blue

Marguerite

Baritone

Florian Sempey

Valentine

Mezzo-soprano

Emily D'Angelo

Siebel

Guilhem Worms

Wagner

Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo

Martha Schwertlein

Opéra National de Paris

Orchestra

Paris Opera Orchestra

Others

Chœur de l’Opéra national de Paris

French

Paris

France

Opéra Bastille

Faust Gounod

Public

English

Approved

[TRAILER] FAUST by Charles Gounod

"I want a treasure, which contains them all!" I want youth! »Frustrated by the futile quest for knowledge, the old scholar Faust sells his soul to the devil in exchange for eternal youth and the beautiful Marguerite… Gounod reworks the myth popularized by Goethe to attach himself to the love story and magnifies the fall and the final salvation of Marguerite. His choice to lighten the philosophical scope of the story allows him to find a balance between scenes where the supernatural calls for the big show and a universe regulated by the interiority of action and feelings. Transposed today, Tobias Kratzer's Faust reflects on contemporary society's obsession with eternal youth. Thanks to an elaborate scenic device, his staging oscillates between hyperrealism and magic, between today's world and the mysterious atmosphere of German romanticism. DIRECTION Tobias Kratzer MUSIC DIRECTOR Thomas Hengelbrock WITH Benjamin Bernheim Christian Van Horn Florian Sempey Guilhem Worms Angel Blue Emily D'angelo Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo Orchestra and Choirs of the Opéra national de Paris Information and reservations onhttps://www.operadeparis.fr/saison-21...

[EXTRAIT] FAUST by Charles Gounod (Benjamin Bernheim)

Faust by Gounod, From (2022/2022), Directed by Tobias Kratzer,, Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock, Opéra Bastille, Paris, France

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