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Charles Gounod: FAUST
2025-03-29T17:00:00.000Z - 2025-04-12T20:00:00.000Z
Opera in five acts, in French, with Hungarian, English and French subtitles
Length of performance: 3 hours 50 minutes, with 2 intermissions.
For over a hundred years, Gounod's French grand opera has been an essential part of the repertoire of any self-respecting opera company, and it remains one of the most frequently performed operas to this day. The composer's aim was not to adapt Goethe's masterpiece for the operatic stage. From a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, a perfumed, smoky drama with romanticism, horror and Gothic motifs was born; a story of romance, temptation, the eternal battle between religion and the forces of Satan.
Mar
29
Apr
12
Schedule
SEASON'S CAST
Conductor: János Kovács
Faust: Andrei Danilov
Mephisto: Péter Kálmán, Gábor Bretz
Valentin: Zsolt Haja
Wagner: Máté Fülep
Margit: Orsolya Sáfár, Ildikó Megyimórecz
Siebel: Zsófia Kálnay
Martha: Bernadett Wiedemann
With the participation of the Orchestra and Choir of the Hungarian State Opera House
SUBMISSIONS
Composer: Charles Gounod
Lyrics by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Jules Barbier, Michel Carré
Directed by Michał Znaniecki
Set designer: Luigi Scoglio
Assistant set designer: Alejandro Contreras Cortés
Costume designer: Ana Ramos Aguayo
Lighting and projection designer: Bogumił Palewicz
Choreographer: Marianna Venekei
Dramaturge, Hungarian text by Judit Kenesey
English text by Arthur Roger Crane
Choreographer: Gábor Csiki
Location
Hungarian State Opera
The Hungarian State Opera House is the only theatre in Hungary with a large company, specialising in operas and ballets. The building is one of Budapest's most important 19th century monuments. It was built in neo-Renaissance style according to the plans of Miklós Ybl. The richly decorated interior was designed by renowned Hungarian artists, including Mór Than, Károly Lotz and Bertalan Székely.