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Faust - Charles Gounod / Jonas Kaufmann, Marina Poplavskaya, Rene Pape / The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet / Decca 2x DVD Video
UPC 044007438114
YANNICK NÉZET-SÉGUIN
Production
DES MCANUFF
Artists
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Double Tony Award winning stage director Desmond McAnuff’s production, hailed by the New York Times as “rich with ideas and theatrically daring”, presents Faust as an atomic scientist inhabiting a dark world shot through with Cold War resonances. Alongside Kaufmann, a typically gold-standard Met cast includes the “phenomenal” René Pape as Méphistophélès and the “ideally-suited” Marina Poplavskaya as Marguerite. Star conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin draws an “elegant, darkly textured performance” from the Metropolitan Opera orchestra. |
CHARLES GOUNOD
FAUST
Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carre, based on Carre's play Faust et Marguerite and
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust, Part I
Faust Jonas Kaufmann
Mephistopheles René Pape Wagner Jonathan Beyer
Valentin Russell Braun Siebel Michèle Losier
Marguerite Marina Poplavskaya
Marthe Wendy White
Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet
Chorus Master Donald Palumbo
Production Des McAnuff Lighting Designer Peter Mumford
Set Designer Robert Brill Costume Designer Paul Tazewell
Choreographer Kelly Devine
Video Designer Sean Nieuwenhuis
A Metropolitan Opera High-Definition Production
Director Barbara Willis Sweete
Music Producer Jay David Saks
Supervising Producers Mia Bongiovanni, Elena Park Producers Louisa Briccetti, Victoria Warivonchik Executive Producer Peter Gelb
Host Joyce DiDonato
