Gounod Faust(2016)

🎬244 min
📅2016-08-01
🎭Music

Overview

Salzburg Festival’s first-ever performance of Charles GounodÂŽs most famous and most performed opera! Internationally-acclaimed tenor Piotr Beczala triumphs in the title role as soul-selling philosopher Faust: “Piotr Beczala is a world-Faust” (Kurier) and “The well-deserved crown goes to a perfectly-cast Piotr Beczala” (Abendzeitung). Ildar Abdrazakov was “celebrated” (Broadway World) for his signature role as seductive and demonic MĂ©phistophĂ©lĂšs. Maria Agresta as convincingly innocent Marguerite struggling to resist temptation and to gain salvation: “She is fabulous!” (SĂŒddeutsche Zeitung). “Spectacular and photogenic” staging (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) by award winning stage director and designer Reinhard von der Thannen. The Philharmonia Chor Wien and the Wiener Philharmoniker are performing under the baton of young Argentinian conductor Alejo PĂ©rez.

Production

Salzburger Festspiele, EuroArts

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Cast

Piotr BeczaƂa
as Faust
Ildar Abdrazakov
as Mephistopheles
Maria Agresta
as Marguerite
Alexey Markov
as Valentin
Tara Erraught
as Siebel
Paolo Rumetz
as Wagner
Marie-Ange Todorovitch
as Marthe
Alejo Pérez
as Conductor