Mefistofele - Baden-Baden Whitsun Festival (2016) - Mefistofele - Baden-Baden Pfingstfestspiele (2016)

Description

New production

The most breathtakingly brilliant Mefisto to grace our stages in recent years deserves an opportunity to inhabit this role to its fullest extent. Playing Mefistofele as a mixture of Latin lover, prankster and demon in Gounod’s Faust opera, Erwin Schrott has already given Festspielhaus audiences a taste of his greatness. He worked so well in tandem with the tenor Charles Castronovo that the idea of bringing them back as Mefisto and Faust in Arrigo Boito’s best-known opera “Mefistofele” was irresistible. The Italian composer of the late Romantic period combines influences of Verdi and Wagner in his musical work: rousing choirs, intricate melodies accompanied by music that is almost cinematic in intent – an intoxicating mix that audiences the world over find unforgettable. A new discovery that is also a reunion with old friends.

More information is available on the opera house's official website.