Faust

DVD 2021

Disillusioned with life, the aged philosopher Faust calls upon Satan to help him. The devil Méphistophélès appears and strikes a bargain with the philosopher: Faust can have youth and the love of the beautiful Marguerite, but only in exchange for his soul. Gounod's masterpiece is given the grandest of Royal Opera stagings in David McVicar's richly layered and theatrically exuberant production, with the drama moved to Second Empire Paris, spect...

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2 videodiscs (apprroximately 178 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (13 pages)
digital optical
videodisc
DVD
video file DVD video
polychrome

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Notes:

Originally released in 2021
Based on Carré's "Faust et Marguerite" and "Faust, part I" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Special features: "Why the Royal Opera love performing 'Faust'" featurette ; "Erwin Schrott and Dan Ettinger discuss the character Méphistophélès in 'Faust'" featurette ; Cast gallery
Music, Charles-Fran̨cois Gounod ; Royal Opera Chorus ; Orchestra of the Royal Opera ; conductor, Dan Ettinger
Michael Fabiano, Erwin Schrott, Irina Lungu, Germán E. Alcántara, Stéphane Degout, Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Carole Wilson
DVD, Dolby digital, Dolby Surround
Sung in French with optional subtitles in English, French, German, Japanese, or Korean

LCCN:

1246303907

Control Number:

3057534

UPC:

809478013303

Other Authors:

Alcántara, Germán E., performer
Barbier, Jules, 1825-1901
Carré, Michel, 1819-1872
Degout, Stéphane, performer
Ettinger, Daniel, 1971- conductor
Fabiano, Michael, performer
Fontanals-Simmons, Marta, performer
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893
Huw, Rhodri, direction
Lungu, Irina, performer
McVicar, David, direction
Opus Arte (Firm)
Royal Opera House (London, England)
Royal Opera House (London, England). Chorus
Royal Opera House (London, England). Orchestra
Schrott, Erwin, performer
Wilson, Carole, performer

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