Insights: Faust
Insights: Faust
Insights: Faust
Cast and creatives come together to discuss David McVicar’s production of Faust ahead of its return to the Main Stage.
In the run up to Faust returning to the Main Stage, this Insight event explores the themes and inspirations of David McVicar's dazzling production.
In the run up to Faust returning to the Main Stage, this Insight event explores the themes and inspirations of David McVicar's dazzling production.
Principal Partner, The Royal Opera
The Paul Hamlyn Education Fund
Background
Inspired by Goethe’s fantastical drama, Faust is as seductive as it is damning. David McVicar’s spectacular production luxuriates in vivid Parisian detail, from the organ loft of Notre Dame to the wild and sordid underworld of 1870s cabaret.
David McVicar's wonderfully theatrical production draws insightful parallels between Faust and Gounod, a composer torn between piety and worldly and romantic success. Sets and costumes by Charles Edwards and Brigitte Reiffenstuel pay tribute to the art and architecture of 1870s Paris, and include a colourful Cabaret d'Enfer, a run-down tenement block and re-creations of a box at the Paris Opera and the organ loft of the cathedral of Notre-Dame. The variety of settings mirrors the variety in Gounod's score, highlights of which include Méphistophélès' demonic aria ‘Le veau d'or (The golden calf)', Marguerite's dazzling 'Jewel Song', the Act IV Soldiers' Chorus and Act V's impassioned trio as Marguerite struggles to achieve salvation.
This Insights event will be filmed and streamed live on the Royal Ballet and Opera YouTube channel.
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