Name: Mefistofele
Start: 2015-10-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2015-11-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Nationaltheater

Organization

Бас

René Pape

Мефистофель

Тенор

Joseph Calleja

Фауст

Сопрано

Kristīne Opolais

Маргарита

Контральто

Heike Grötzinger

Марта

Andrea Borghini

Вагнер

Karine Babajanyan

Елена Троянская

Rachael Wilson

Панталида

Joshua Owen Mills

Нерей

Дирижер

Omer Meir Wellber

Режиссер-постановщик

Roland Schwab

Художник-постановщик

Piero Vinciguerra

Художник по костюмам

Renée Listerdal

Художник по свету

Michael Bauer

Хормейстер

Sören Eckhoff

Stellario Fagone

Bayerische Staatsoper

Orchestra

Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Others

Bayerischer Staatsopernchor

итальянский

Mefistofele -  (Мефистофель)

Мюнхен

Германия

Nationaltheater

Best known today as the librettist of Verdi's last Shakespearean masterpieces, Otello and Falstaff, the multi-talented Arrigo Boito was also a journalist, poet and an outstanding composer himself. His first (and only completed) opera, Mefistofele, is very extensive and took about 20 years to complete. His first (and only completed) opera, Mefistofele, is said to encompass no less than the entirety of Goethe's great poetic drama Faust (Parts I and II).

Unlike Gounod's better-known version, Boito's opera focuses not only on the human tragedy of Faust's callous seduction of the innocent Margherita (Goethe's Gretchen), but also on the more metaphysical conflict between good and evil in the original poem. So at the beginning we see Mefistofele betting with God that he can lead the ancient philosopher Faust into the ways of sin, while at the end we see the devil's defeat when the disillusioned and dying Faust finally has a glimpse of happiness and is redeemed.

Director Roland Schwab (a protégé of the legendary Ruth Berghaus), making his Bavarian State Opera debut with the Munich premiere of Boito's masterpiece, plays devil's advocate by setting the opera in what appears to be a garbage-strewn nightclub, which then turns transformed into a geriatric infirmary, with a drunken detour to the Munich Oktoberfest. So is hell just hell on earth that passes for the modern world?

René Pape sings "with clear, powerful bass lines" (Deutschlandradio Kultur) and plays Mefistofele as the sardonic leader of a satanic cult. As Faust, his slave, Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja "strums his high notes with tremendous force" (Financial Times). Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais' Margherita "shines with subtle Grace Kelly elegance" (Opera Today), while Armenian soprano Karine Babajanyan as Elena - the legendary Helen of Troy - "shines with heroic high notes" (Süddeutsche Zeitung). Finally, in the orchestra pit, the Israeli conductor Omer Meir Wellber "holds together all the musical textures with admirable control" (BR Klassik).

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