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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.

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29
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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.

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