Faust - Lille Opera house (2025) - Faust - Opéra de Lille (2025)

Description

New production,
Co-production Opéra-Comique – Paris, Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre for French Romantic Music, Venice.

Original version with spoken dialogue.

"Denis Podalydès (...) sees here "a fundamentally anti-puritan opera in a puritan world whose religious code it nevertheless espouses, and which it pretends to observe. There is in this work a double or duplicitous aspect - a structural hypocrisy, typical of the Second Empire. For Gounod is a true Catholic prey to demons all the more demonic because he is a fervent Christian." After having examined another great figure of the theater, Falstaff, in his Verdian dimension, the director here attacks Goethe's tragic hero, using the spoken dialogues of Jules Barbier which were part of the work at its creation in 1859, to reveal all its ambiguities. A way of celebrating, in Gounod's opera, the eternal youth."

More information is available on the official website of the opera house.