opera notebook
some operas I have seen on videoCharles Gounod, Faust (1859)
libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré
Teatro Regio di Torino, 2015
- Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
- Director, Set Designer, Lighting, Costumes, and Choreography: Stefano Poda
- Faust: Charles Castronovo
- Méphistophélès: Ildar Abdrazakov
- Marguerite: Irina Lungu
Stefano Poda's auteur production features a gigantic metallic-looking ring that rises and falls and swivels around and always seems about to crush the singers, emblematically enough. Another feature of Poda's design is the continual use of German text (from Goethe, one imagines) as set decoration.