It has an uncommonly spineless hero whose abandonment of Marguerite - the maiden he seduces - almost seems like carelessness.
“Faust” had its detractors at its 1859 premiere in Paris and still does. The Dutch National Opera (formerly the Netherlands Opera) hadn’t performed it for 45 years until last Saturday, when it introduced a new, visually dazzling production by the Catalan theater group La Fura dels Baus, with Marc Minkowski conducting. AMSTERDAM - Gounod’s “Faust” may turn up less often than it used to, but it shows no signs of disappearing.
0 kommentar(er)
