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| Faust |
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| Productions of Interest |
| Bastille - 2003 |
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| Faust at the Bastille: Rolando Villazon in the title role and Kristinn Sigmundsson as Mephistopheles
Photo: Eric Mahoudeau |
| Mary Mills as Marguerite and Rolando Villazon as Faust
Photo: Eric Mahoudeau |
| The production, by Jorge Savalli, could have been a tribute to Baltard, the belle époque architect of Paris, and the big Bastille stage seemed changed into the interior of one of his wondrous glass and steel confections./ source |
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| Teatro Regio in Turin - 2003 |
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| Royal Opera - |
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| ''Scenes From Goethe's 'Faust' '' is half man, half beast, a failed escape from the concert stage. Sometimes it thinks it is opera; and in Scene 6, ''Faust's Death,'' it behaves like one to great effect. Most of what comes before, on the other hand, throws up its hands, accepts its lack of stage-worthiness and becomes an oratorio. Schumann wrote the piece backward: that is, the long final scene, ''Faust's Redemption,'' in which Faust's soul is intercepted and redirected to heaven, was composed first. Finished in 1844 and performed by itself, it waited until 1853 for the other six scenes to appear./ Review-January 16, 2006 |
| According to the Five Year Plan, the SF Opera had planned on doing Faust in its 2006-2007 Season, but since that did not happen . . . San Francisco is now planning it for the 2009-2010 Season (source: after opera talk - Opera Tattler) |
| Houston Grand Opera - 2007 (playbill review and pictures) HGO's Faust matches the devil's fire at the end ... Ice alert! Ice alert! Some of that weather we were promised a few days ago has shown up on the stage of the Wortham Theater Center...enough dry ice fog to make Marguerite almost invisible as she ascended to heaven ..It's the grand gesture ending the traditional production HGO first staged in 1985 with direction by Francesca Zambello and sets and costumes by Houston artist Earl Staley. This time, Elizabeth Blackman has staged the work, but the show overall still looks lusciously traditional./ Review |
| Teatro Regio di Parma |
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| Portland Opera
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| Canadian Opera Company Photos |