Faust

Opera in 4 acts with a libretto by Jules Paul Barbier and Michel Florentin Carré, based on Carré's own drame  fantastique Faust et Marguerite and Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil.  The work revolves around a young girl – Marguerite – who is seduced and believes in true love, but love is her downfall. She is surrounded by men, all with their different yearnings: Faust is dreaming of youthfulness and passion; Méphistophéles is cold and voyeuristic, Marguerite’s brother Valentin sees her as a status symbol, as his property. And Siebel, whose feelings are pure, loses out completely. Performed in French with German and English surtitles, Marguerite is sung by Diana Damrau, Méphistophéles  by Alex Esposito and Faust by Bryan Hymel.