Organization

Dirigat

Philippe Herreweghe

Regie

Julian Rosefeldt

Videogestaltung

Choreographie

Femke Gyselinck

Bühnenbild

Sammy Van den Heuvel

Lichtgestaltung

Matthias Singer

Kostümbild

Birgitt Kilian

Dramaturgie

Tobias Staab

Katherina Lindekens

Chordirektion

Jan Schweiger

Hendrik Derolez

Sänger

Bariton

Rafael Fingerlos

Faust

Dr Marianus

Sopran

Eleanor Lyons

Gretchen

Una Poenitentium

Tenor

Ilker Arcayürek

Ariel

Padre Ecstaticus

Vollendeter Enge

Junger Engel

Lore Binon

Sorge

Magna

Bass-Bariton

Sam Carl

Geist

Bass

Mephisto

Padre Prodandus

Sara Jo Benoot

Mangel

Mezzosopran

Mater gloriosa

Mulier Samaritana

Zofia Hanna

Schuld

Maria Aegyptiaca

Marthe

Elisa Soster

Yu-Hsiang Hsieh

Padre Seraphicus

Demon

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

Antwerpen

Belgien

Opera Antwerp

Public

Faust-Szenen

Genehmigt

Faust Production Photos

Szenen aus Goethes Faust is one of the best kept secrets of romantic music theatre. With his magnum opus, Robert Schumann pays tribute to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Both artists turned Faust and his pact of the devil into a life's work that is both utterly unique and timelessly universal.

Faust is a disenchanted scholar, fruitlessly seeking the deepest truth. In exchange for his soul, Mephistopheles takes him in hand. Redemption awaits in the end, but the route there is an existential rollercoaster of striving, falling and getting back up again and again. Faust, that's us.



Schumann captures the essence of the drama in seven iconic scenes that mercilessly get under the skin. If you want to label this score, you're in for a challenge: like Faust, a roller coaster ride through an unprecedented multi-coloured landscape awaits the listener.



Opera meets oratorio, an orchestral song drifts past polyphonic church music, in the distance a children's chorus is heard. And yet the parts and the whole never lose sight of each other for a moment.



Conductor Philippe Herreweghe calls Szenen aus Goethes Faust nothing less than a masterpiece. According to him, Schumann's theatrical pen requires a visual staging. The work couldn't be in better hands with Julian Rosefeldt, director of films and installations such as Manifesto (2015) with Cate Blanchett. Together with choreographer Femke Gyselinck, he resolutely roots Schumann's Faust in the here and now. The Faustian condition comes to life in all its richness from the counterpoint between video, dance and play: from tragic love to relentless progress and an ultimate transfiguration with cosmic dimensions.

English

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Besetzung

Produktionsteam