Name: Faust
Start: 2016-08-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2016-08-29T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Großes Festspielhaus

Admin

Organization

Sångare

Tenor

Piotr Beczała

Faust

Bass

Ildar Abdrazakov

Méphistophélès

Soprano

Maria Agresta

Marguerite

Baritone

Alexey Markov

Valentin

Mezzo-soprano

Tara Erraught

Siébel

Paolo Rumetz

Wagner

Marie-Ange Todorovitch

Marthe Schwertlein

Dirigent

Alejo Pérez

Regissör

Reinhard von der Thannen

Kostym designer

Scenograf

Alexander Fahima

Körledare

Walter Zeh

Koreograf

Giorgio Madia

Ljus designer

Franck Evin

Salzburger Festspiele

Orchestra

Wiener Philharmoniker

Others

Philharmonia Choir Vienna

franska

Salzburg

Österrike

Großes Festspielhaus

Faust Gounod

Public

tyska

engelska

Approved

A cosmopolitan lyric-dramatic talent’ – that is what Eduard Hanslick, the most influential music critic of the nineteenth century, called the composer Charles Gounod, whose life, so full of changes, began in Paris, where he was born on 17 June 1818. Encouraged from early on by his mother, a highly gifted pianist, to pursue a musical career, his initial efforts as a composer were sacred works. It was the singer Pauline Viardot who pointed him in the direction of opera and for whom he composed Sapho, his first stage work (1851). Despite a lukewarm reception by the public, Gounod was persuaded that he was called to be an opera composer, and it was his setting of Faust that established his worldwide fame.

The struggle of the eternal seeker with the powers of the cosmos were not what occupied the centre of Gounod’s interest, but rather that episode from Faust Part One that most readily lent itself to musical adaptation – specifically the ‘Gretchen tragedy’, which Goethe had already woven into his Urfaust, his very first treatment of the material, and which is based on the fate of a servant girl, Susanna Margarethe Brandt, condemned to death in 1772. That is the reason the opera was called Margarethe in the German-speaking world for a long period of time.

English

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Ensemble