Name: Faust
Start: 2020-09-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-06-17T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Baron Fon Derviz Mansion (St Petersburg Chamber Opera)

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Stage director

Yuri Alexandrov

Set designer

Vyacheslav Okunev

Lighting designer

Irina Vtornikova

Tenor

Vsevolod Kalmykov

Faust

Bass

Alexey Pashiyev

Mephistopheles

Soprano

Valentina Fedeneva

Marguerite

Baritone

Vladimir Tselebrovsky

Valentine

Mezzo-soprano

Natalya Kochubey

Siebel

Anton Morozov

Wagner

Natalya Vorobyeva

Martha Schwertlein

Sergey Aleshchenko

Yuri Borshchev

Sofia Nekrasova

Dmitry Udi

Larisa Pominova

Efim Rastorguyev

Natalya Chernikova

Darya Modzalevskaya

Conductor

Maxim Valkov

Choreographer

Nadezhda Kalinina

Chorus master

Igor Pototskiy

Costume designer

Yana Zubova

Video designer

Daniil Bakalin

St Petersburg Chamber Opera

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Saint Petersburg

Russia

Baron Fon Derviz Mansion (St Petersburg Chamber Opera)

Main stage

Faust Gounod

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Charles Gounod argued that an opera playwright should be a master of musical portrait. In the opera “Faust” based on the first part of Goethe's poem, he showed that he mastered this art to perfection. Gounod’s portraits of the protagonists are psychologically deep, vividly colored that they can awaken the most daring, even shocking images in the consciousness of a person of the twenty-first century... Artistic director of the St. Petesburg Opera and director of the play Yuri Alexandrov offers the audience a bold reading of the story of Faust, who sold his soul to the devil for youth.
In a modern expressive performance, Yuri Alexandrov raises eternal philosophical problems, reflects on the nature of love and the confrontation between hell and heaven. This production, which was awarded the Highest Theater Prize of St. Petersburg “Golden Soffit” in the nomination “Best Musical Performance”, became one of the most poignant works of the director.
 “What is the Devil? No, this is not a fantastic character with red horns, but the evil that we accumulate in ourselves... The most terrible thing in the modern world is indifference. Dostoevsky wrote that the tears of children are worse than any world catastrophe. However, nowadays’ world full of them: bombings, hunger, diseases and natural disasters. They kill thousands of children every day. Do people of the twenty-first century care about this? No, as long as it does not regard us…
Over the past decades, we have witnessed many attempts of brainwashing. Many world regimes tried to subjugate mind and soul. This is still happening to some extent. Various information is introduced into the consciousness of people. An invasion into the human mind, an attempt to create a new Frankenstein - this is what I saw in the history of Faust”, Yuri Alexandrov reflects.

English

Faust by Gounod, Wed 11 Nov 2020, From (2020/2021), Directed by Yuri Alexandrov, Natalya Chernikova, Darya Modzalevskaya,, Conductor Maxim Valkov, Yana Zubova, Baron Fon Derviz Mansion (St Petersburg Chamber Opera), Saint Petersburg, Russia

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