Royal Opera House: Faust
Director: David McVicar
3 hours 30 min., including one interval.
Screenwriter: Music: Charles-Francois Gounod. Libretto: Jules Barbier and Michel Carre, inspired by Goethe's epic poem, Faust.
Cast: Cast includes: Michael Fabiano, Erwin Schrott, Irina Lungu, Stephane Degout.
London’s Royal Opera presents David McVicar’s spectacular production of Gounod’s best-loved opera! Disillusioned with life, the aged philosopher Faust (performed by Michael Fabiabo) calls upon Satan to help him. Méphistophélès (bass Erwin Schrott) appears and strikes a bargain: he will give him youth and the love of the beautiful Marguerite (Irina Lungu), if Faust will hand over his soul. Faust agrees – but will he repent his destructive actions, and can his soul, or Marguerite’s, be saved? Experience the decadence and elegance of 1870s Paris in an ever-popular opera, on Cinestudio’s huge (single) screen!
“McVicar’s staging, transposing the opera to Second Empire Paris and exposing the moral and sexual hypocrisies of a society on the skids, remains a thing of wonder.” Tim Ashley, the Guardian.
