The Teatro Real opened its 2018/19 season with a new production of Faust by Charles Gounod, the version of the German legend in a grand opera format. Piotr Beczala as protagonist - the figure of relentless ambition par excellence - and Marina Rebeka sing the role of Marguerite. Àlex Ollé directs this captivating opera after his recent success of The Flying Dutchman in this theatre It will be the third time that La Fura dels Baus stages the Faustian legend.
Opera in five acts
Music by Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Libretto by Jules Barbier y Michel Carré, based on the play Faust et Marguerite (1850) by Michel Carré and the homonymous work (1808) by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique de Paris on March 19, 1859
Premiered at the Teatro Real on January 18, 1865
New production of the Teatro Real, in co-production with De Nationale Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam
Titular Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
Artistic team
Conductor I Dan Ettinger
Stage director I Àlex Ollé
Set designer I Alfons Flores
Costumes designer I Lluc Castells
Lighting designer I Urs Schönebaum
Chorus master I Andrés Máspero
Cast
Dr. Faust I Piotr Beczala
Méphitophélès I Luca Pisaroni
Marguerite I Marina Rebeka
Valentin I Stéphane Degout
Wagner I Isaac Galán
Siébel I Serena Malfi
Marthe I Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo
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