Movie talk: ‘Faust’ opera at Alderwood
Published 3:45 pm Thursday, November 20, 2008
The Met’s third season of the Emmy Award-winning “The Met: Live in HD,” in partnership with NCM Fathom, continues at 10 a.m. Saturday at Alderwood 7 Theatres, 3501 184th St. SW, Lynnwood, (425-672-2077) with a special transmission of “La Damnation de Faust.”
Noted director Robert Lepage makes his Met debut with a technologically innovative new production of Hector Berlioz’s masterpiece, “La Damnation de Faust,” which opened Nov. 7 at the Met. Music director James Levine conducts the first staging of the work at the Met since 1906, with Marcello Giordani in the title role, Susan Graham as Marguerite and John Relyea as Méphistophélès.
Lepage has reconceived the production he originally created for Japan’s Saito Kinen Festival and the Opera National de Paris. The new staging features enhanced media and technology that was not previously available — some of which was developed by Lepage and his Quebec-based company, Ex Machina. The entire production team is making its Met debut: set designer Carl Fillion, costume designer Karin Erskine, lighting designer Sonoyo Nishikawa, choreographers Johanne Madore and Alain Gautier, and video designers Holger Foerterer and Boris Firquet.
