On the program: ( 3h30 with intermission) Monday 5 May - 20h Wednesday 7 May - 20h Saturday 10 May - 18h Monday 12 May - 20h Thursday 15 May - 20h Saturday 17 May - 18h Tuesday 20 May - 20h Thursday 22 May - 20h Opéra de Lille - GOUNOD Faust
Louis Langrée, Music director Denis Podalydès, Director Laurent Delvert, Director
Julien Dran, Faust Jérôme Boutillier, Méphistophélès Vannina Santoni, Marguerite Lionel Lhote, Valentin Anas Séguin, Wagner Juliette Mey, Siébel Marie Lenormand, Dame Marthe`
Laurent Podalydès, Léo Reynaud, Actors
Choir of the Opéra de Lille Orchestre National de Lille
Place to the tragic epic of Faust after Gounod for this second and last work of the season proposed jointly by the Orchestre National de Lille and the Lille Opera. After Verdi’s Falstaff presented in 2023, director Denis Podalydès tackles here Faust, a hero steeped in antagonisms imagined by Goethe, whose destiny that closely combines vice and virtue, can find resonance in our current era. Gounod’s Faust, the most performed French opera in the world after Carmen, is characterized by an expressive musical richness, where the melody is sometimes soft and tender during love duets, sometimes bright and truculente during crowd scenes. So many delicious contradictions that will explain the eternal youth of this jewel of French opera.