FAUST

Ballet in 2 parts

Online broadcast starts at 7 p.m.

Music (I part): Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Bryce Dressner, Igor Wakhevitch, Superflu und Rammstein

Music (II part): Hans Abrahamsen, Louis Andriessen, Luciano Berio, Michael Gordon, David Lang und Pēteris Vasks

Choreography: Xin Peng Wang

Concept, scenario, dramaturgy: Christian Baier

Stage design: Frank Fellmann

Costume design: Bernd Skodzig

Light design: Carlo Cerri

Sound design: Dirk Matschuk

Video: Frank Vetter

Cast (I Part):
Adult Faust: Harold Quintero López
Young Faust: Javier Cacheiro Alemán
Mephisto: Dann Wilkinson
Margarethe: Barbara Melo Freire
Marthe Schwertlein: Jelena-Ana Stupar
Four sciences: theologie — Sae Tamura; philosophy — Clara Carolina Sorzano Hernandez; medicine — Amanda Vieira; law — Nae Nishimura
Three devils: Giuseppe Ragona, Arsen Azatyan, Francesco Nigro, Tigran Sargsyan, Giacomo Altovino, Davide D' Elia
Chess pieces: Davide D' Elia, Dayne Andrew Florence
Society/demons of Walpurgis Night: Denise Chiarioni, Clara Carolina Sorzano Hernandez, Sae Tamura, Fernanda Verarda, Nae Nishimura, Gemma Gullefer, Amanda Vieira, Risa Terasawa, Haruka Sassa, Arsen Azatyan, Giuseppe Ragona, William Dugan, Stephen C. King, Tigran Sargsyan, Francesco Nigro, Davide D' Elia, Giacomo Altovino, Dayne Andrew Florence, Erik Jesús Sosa Sánchez, Norton Fantinel, Hiroaki Ishida
Angels Juliane Goll, Johanna Bennholz

World premiere (Part I): February 13, 2016

Duration (Part I): 1 hour 30 minutes

Cast (Part II):
Faust: Marlon Dino
Helena (Margarethe): Lucia Lacarra
Mephisto: Dann Wilkinson
Homunculus: Giacomo Altovino
The Sun Child: Denise Chiarioni
Child: Madita Herzog
Refugees, court society, party society: Madeline Andrews, Denise Chiarioni, Clara Carolina Sorzano Hernandez, Ida Anneli Kallanvaara, Karina Moreira, Stephanine Ricciardi, Haruka Sassa, Sae Tamura, Risa Terasawa, Amanda Vieira, Javier Cacheiro Alemán, Giacomo Altovino, Michael Samuel Blaško, Alysson da Rocha, William Dugan, Hiroaki Ishida, Andrei Morariu, Francesco Nigro, Harold Quintero López, Giuseppe Ragona, Dann Wilkinson
Vocal: Maike Raschke

World Premiere (Part II): October 26, 2016

Duration (Part II): 1 hour 30 minutes

About ballet

Faust I — conscience!

Man, in his dark urge, is well aware of the right path.Really? — A bet between God and the devil should prove ...

Faust has absorbed all knowledge. He cannot find any satisfaction. At the moment of knowledge the feeling of emptiness and inadequacy creeps up on him. He wants to reach the limits of reality and — to cross them. Well, Faust, then come!

The history of Johann Georg Faust, a miracle healer, alchemist, black artist, magician, astrologer and fortune teller, goes back to the turn from the Middle Ages to modern times. In the folk book Historia by Doctor Faustus (1587) the biography of the historical person is mixed with legends and superstitions: All those who seek knowledge should be warned that God wants to look at the cards! In 1808, Goethe designed the lurid legend to the dramatic parable of thirst for knowledge and longing for redemption. After his well-respected choreographic interpretations of great literary models such as War and Peace, Hamlet or Zauberberg, Xin Peng Wang takes you into the magical-mystical world of the ancient parables of mankind with his new plot ballet. He spans the arc from the world of images from the Middle Ages to the present and tells of the hubris of people who reach for the incomprehensible.

But once all the mistakes have been made, what is there to know beyond conscience?

Faust II — redemption!

Oh wait, linger, you are so beautiful! The universal scholar Faust must never say this sentence, an expression of satisfaction with the world, with life, with himself. Otherwise his soul belongs to the devil. God and Mephisto once bet whether evil could succeed in spoiling a person so deeply that he himself is no longer aware in your dark urge of the right way.

Almost twenty years after the completion of Faust, the German poet prince in 1825 turned to the continuation of the story of sinful Faust, who rushes from life attraction to life attraction without being able to enjoy a moment of happiness. Accompanied by artistic self-doubt and personal blows of fate, the then 82-year-old created his Opus Magnum, a legacy of European intellectual history on the one hand, and on the other a deep examination of human existence between boundless selfishness and longing selflessness. From unscrupulous play with the mechanisms of the money economy to inflation, the creation of artificial life and the liaison with the most beautiful woman in the world, the ancient Helena — the life of Faust is not poor in attractions and profound references. But he has to be a hundred years old. After experiencing and experiencing everything that exists between heaven and earth, he now, blindly, comes up with his boldest plan: he wants to build a dike and thus gain land from the sea for the needless. When he succeeds in this, when he overcomes his selfishness and selflessly selflessly stands up for others, he speaks the fateful sentence that Mephisto has been waiting for all the time. But: “If you strive, we can redeem you!” — Heaven opens up and takes Faust. He has paid for his life's guilt.