Faust at the MET

Friday January 13, 2012

Charles Gonud's Faust Opera at the Metropolitan Opera-

(1859) based on Goethe's Faust (1808).

A night of magic, evil, love, and tragedy:


Photo from www.nytimes.com



Jonas Kaufman as Faust.

Faustian fanstasy at the Metropolitan OperaHouse.


New York Times Review

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/arts/music/a-review-of-the-metropolitan-operas-faust.html




Jonas Kaufmann as Faust and René Pape as Méphistophélès



Michèle Losier as Siebel
From www.operatoday.com

I thought this singer was wonderful.

Read the review of her performance (and others) here.

http://www.operatoday.com/content/2011/12/faust_metropoli.php




Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)




Visions of Faust
http://beautiful-grotesque.posterous.com/?tag=faust

Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights- written in 1938 by Gertrude Stein

Stein's portrait by Pablo Picasso 1938

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Posters from Productions
http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9E0CE0D91531F93AA35754C0A964958260

Robert Wilson's seminal 1992 Production from his online archives

http://www.robertwilson.com/archive/productions?production=196

Video
Yale School of Drama, 2011


www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb7SC3SCXeQ

Alleyway Theater, Buffalo, NY 2011
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtllnOqkIlw


Onstage now:


The Cutting Ball Theater, San Francisco

http://cuttingball.com/events/0708classics/doctor-faustus-lights-the-lights/


The citations in this post are still being updated. Thank you.