Faust
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 29, 2011
Closed Jan 19, 2012
Opened Nov 29, 2011
Closed Jan 19, 2012
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With Jonas Kaufmann in the title role, René Pape as the devil, and Marina Poplavskaya as Marguerite, Gounod's classic retelling of the Faust legend couldn't be better served. Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff updates the story to the first half of the 20th century with a production that won praise in London last season. A later run features two other first-tier Fausts: Roberto Alagna and Joseph Calleja, with Ferruccio Furlanetto stepping in as the devil. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts on the heels of his Don Carlo success.
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Perhaps wanting to restore some of the philosophical depth to Goethe's Faust that composer Charles Gounod and librettists Jules Barbier and Michel Carre minimized for their 1859 opera adaptation, Des McAnuff has set his new production, now getting its U.S. premiere at the Metropolitan Opera, in the 20th Century.
However, transforming the title character, who makes a pact with the devil, into an atom-bomb-developing scientist longing to revisit both his World War I youth and a girl from back then turns out to be an unhelpful idea.
Fortunately, Yannick Nezet-Seguin's sturdy conducting and a great deal of unassailable singing by a seasoned cast mitigates the unfortunate foolishness [...]