Devil in the detail: Gounod's Faust in Stuttgart

By Matthew Rye, 04 November 2016

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“both ingenious and full of wit and self-references”

Reviewed at Staatsoper Stuttgart, Stuttgart on 3 November 2016

Gounod, Faust

Staatsoper Stuttgart

Marc Soustrot, Conductor

Johannes Knecht, Conductor

Frank Castorf, Director

Aleksandar Denić, Set Designer

Adriana Braga Peretzki, Costume Designer

Mandy Fredrich, Marguerite

Atalla Ayan, Faust

Adam Palka, Méphistophélès

Iris Vermillion, Marthe

Sophie Marilley, Siebel

Gezim Myshketa, Valentin

Michael Nagl, Wagner

Lothar Baumgarte, Lighting Designer

Ann-Christine Mecke, Dramaturgy

Staatsopernchor Stuttgart

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Matthew Rye

Matthew read music at Oxford and worked in music journalism for 30 years as a writer, critic and editor. He wrote numerous programme and CD booklet notes, spent 13 years as a Daily Telegraph critic, worked at BBC Music Magazine and was reviews editor of The Strad. He also wrote for The Wagner Journal and Opera and blogged at ferneklang.blogspot.co.uk. He was general editor of 1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die (Cassell Illustrated, 2007) and was the author of a new series of eBooks, Masterpieces of Music (Erudition).

The devil is in the detail: Gounod's Faust in Stuttgart