Details

Faust is a man of middle age who has grown tired of life and yearns only for sensual pleasure and for his lost youth. He summons up Mephistopheles, who agrees to grant his desires - but at the price of his eternal soul. An innocent woman, Marguerite, falls victim to this diabolical pact when she is seduced by Faust: the result is her destruction. But whilst for Marguerite there is hope of redemption, for Faust there is none.

Cast/Performers

Vittorio Grigolo (Faust), Angela Gheorghiu (Marguerite Sep 21 / / 24 / 28), Rene Pape, Malin Bystrom (Marguerite Sep 26 Oct 7 / 10), Dmitri Hvorostovsky, ZhengZhong Zhou (Valentin Oct 7 / 10), Michele Losier (Siebel), Daniel Grice (Wagner), Carole Wilson (Martha Schwertlein)

Creatives/Company

Music: Gounod
Lyrics(s): Lules Barbier, Michel Carre (after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust)
Producer: Royal Opera House
Director: Lee Blakeley
Design: Charles Edwards
Costume: Brigitte Reiffenstuel
Lighting: Paule Constable
Choreographer(s): Michael Keegan-Dolan (original), Daphne Strothmann (revival)
Conductor: Evelino Pido