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Gounod: Faust
Frédéric Chaslin; Frank Castorf; Vienna State Opera; Aleksandar Denić; Adriana Braga Peretzki; Lothar Baumgarte; Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
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Méphistophélès steals the show in Staatsoper's Faust

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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.
****1
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Gounod in the Time of Corona: Frank Castorf's many-layered Faust

Faust and Méphistophélès pal around like buddies in Castorf's multi-media staging, the devil here less diabolical and more anarchistic party-boy. 
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Verdi Wars: Frank Castorf’s Forza del destino at Deutsche Oper

Audience uproar brings a much needed sense of theatre to a disappointing production of Verdi’s middle-period epic.

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