Faust

Oper Leipzig, Opernhaus, Leipzig, Germany

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Type: Ballet

City: Leipzig, Germany

Starts at: 19:00

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Overview

At the center of Edward Clug's full-length narrative ballet created for the Ballett Zürich is the driven, doubting, selfish intellectual Faust. The musical basis for the piece, which marks the first time Clug - the head of the Slovenian National Ballet Maribor - appears at the Leipzig Ballet, comes from Milko Lazar, one of the most renowned Slovenian composers.

In 2018, the Slovenian choreographer Edward Clug staged the Faust drama for the Ballett Zürich together with the composer Milko Lazar. In the interaction between music, choreography and the literary original, their interpretation relies primarily on atmospheric images. Clug’s choreography brings the central scenes of Goethe’s work on stage, but develops a narrative style that undermines the burden of interpretation borne by this dramatic heavyweight with tongue-in-cheek irony, lightness and surprising theatrical solutions. When Faust signs the pact with the devil, for example, the scene is portrayed as a breakneck, acrobatic pas de deux in a glass chamber, and includes the wheelchair in which Faust is sitting. Clug sketches Mephisto not so much as a diabolical adversary, but rather as Faust’s split personality: the two are closely, at times even erotically connected by the choreography.

History

Premiere of this production: 12 February 1848, Milan, Italy

Faust is a ballet in three acts and seven scenes, with choreography and libretto by Jules Perrot and music by Giacomo Panizza, Michael Andrew Costa, and Niccolò Bajetti, first presented by the Ballet of the Teatro alla Scala on 12 February 1848 in Milan, with Fanny Elssler (as Marguerite), Jules Perrot (as Mephistophelis), Effisio Catte (as Faust), and Ekaterina Costantini (as Bambo, Queen of the Demons).

Venue Info

Oper Leipzig - Leipzig
Augustusplatz 12

Oper Leipzig is one of the most famous and oldest opera houses in Europe. Oper Leipzig stands for the highest musical and craft quality. It is based on active ensemble culture and the promotion of young singers. The program ranges from opera, opera, operetta, musical to classic and modern ballet. There are also numerous offers and in-house productions for children, young adults and families.

Oper Leipzig forms the roof for a three-division house consisting of an opera, Leipzig ballet and musical comedy. Located in the Opera House (Opera & Leipzig Ballet) in the center of Leipzig and in the Dreilinden House (Musical Comedy) in the Lindenau district, it has a tradition of more than 325 years of musical theater care in Leipzig. In 1693 the first opera house on Brühl was opened as the third bourgeois music theater in Europe after Venice and Hamburg. Since 1840, the world-famous Gewandhaus Orchestra has played on all performances of opera and ballet. Prof. Ulf Schirmer has been General Music Director of the Leipzig Opera since the 2009/10 season. Under his musical direction, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss' works in particular become the focus of the repertoire.

Performances of opera in Leipzig trace back to Singspiel performances beginning in the year 1693. The director of many of those early operas at the original Opernhaus auf dem Brühl was Telemann.

The Leipzig Opera does not have its own opera orchestra – the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra performs as its orchestra. This relationship began in 1766 with performances of the Singspiel Die verwandelten Weiber, oder Der Teufel ist los by Johann Adam Hiller.

The previous theater (the "Neues Theater") was inaugurated on 28 January 1868 with Jubilee Overture by Carl Maria von Weber and the overture for Iphigénie en Aulide by Gluck and Goethe's play Iphigenia in Tauris. From 1886 to 1888, Gustav Mahler was the second conductor; Arthur Nikisch was his superior. During an air raid in the night of 3 December 1943, part of the bombing of Leipzig in World War II, the theater was destroyed, as were all Leipzig's theatres.

Construction of the modern opera house began in 1956. The theater was inaugurated on 8 October 1960 with a performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

Since 2009, Ulf Schirmer is the Generalmusikdirektor (General Music Director, or GMD); he was elected artistic director in 2011 for a five-year term.

Important Info

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City: Leipzig, Germany

Starts at: 19:00

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