Faust

In the organizer's words:

Music theater based on the opera "La damnation de Faust" by Hector Berlioz

The great European story of the devil's pactor Doctor Johann Faust and his unshakeable hubris has inspired artists for centuries to create fundamental works about basic human questions. As a failing intellectual in times of war, Faust appears in disparate episodes in Hector Berlioz's légende dramatique La damnation de Faust as a symbol of the modern individual of the Anthropocene. The work also transcends all genre boundaries between opera, oratorio and choral symphony.

The Faust material and the Berlioz opera form the two central pillars of the new music theater piece development at the Staatstheater Kassel, which Sebastian Baumgarten and Kiril Stankow will realize together. Baumgarten has already directed music theater and plays on the biggest stages in the German-speaking world - often right on the cusp of genre boundaries. For Faust, the native of East Berlin is returning to one of his central places of activity: the Staatstheater Kassel. From 1999 to 2002, he was head stage manager and deputy opera director here and brought the still legendary productions of Mozart's Entführung aus dem Serail, Strauss' Rosenkavalier and Wagner's Parsifal to the Kassel opera stage. He and his team are thus opening the second half of the season, which is now back in the ANTIPOLIS auditorium.