Event listing: Faust | Wiener Staatsoper | Event is in the past

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Wiener StaatsoperOpernring 2 / Herbert-von-Karajan-Platz, Vienna, 1010, Austria

Dates/times in Vienna time zone

Programme

Performers

Vienna State Opera
Bertrand de Billy	Conductor
Frank Castorf	Director
Aleksandar Denić	Set Designer
Adriana Braga Peretzki	Costume Designer
Lothar Baumgarte	Lighting Designer
Martin Andersson	Video
Ann-Christine Mecke	Dramaturgy
Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
Rachel Willis-Sørensen	Soprano	Marguerite
Stephen Costello	Tenor	Faust
Adam Palka	Bass	Méphistophélès
Margaret Plummer	Mezzo-soprano	Siebel
Étienne Dupuis	Baritone	Valentin
Monika Bohinec	Mezzo-soprano	Marthe

Reviews of Faust directed by Frank Castorf

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Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, April 2021

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Staatsoper Stuttgart, November 2016

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Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, May 2024 (Deutsch)

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Méphistophélès steals the show in Staatsoper's Faust

George Jahn, 4th November

Adam Palka shines as the devil in this revival of Frank Castorf's multimedia staging that relocates the work to mid-20th century Paris, around the end of the Algerian War.

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