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Guildford Opera perform Gounod's Faust
The Electric Theatre Surrey GU1 4SZ
Wed 22 Nov to Saturday 25 Nov 2023
Wed Nov 22 @7.30pm, tickets £23 - special offer 4 tickets for price of 3.Friday Nov 24 @7.30pm and Sat Nov @6.30pm £25. Children and students £12. Preshow talk by the directors at 6.30pm on Friday .
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Guildford Opera perform Gounod's Faust
What price eternal youth?
Ageing and disillusioned, Faust makes a fateful pact with the satanic Mephistopheles with tragic results for those closest to him.
Based on Goethe’s classic German legend, the story remains timeless in its themes: the urge to remain young and desirable, the conflict between worldliness and spirituality, the repercussions of an unwanted pregnancy and the dilemmas posed by our choices.
Gounod’s music is a feast of well-known arias including the Jewel Song, the Golden Calf and the Soldiers’ Chorus. Faust combines exuberant drama, emotional poignancy and an irresistible whiff of decadence.
Guildford Opera will perform the opera in an English edition prepared by Peter Melville and are accompanied by a chamber orchestra - this perennial favourite will bring a thrill to the dark days of autumn: resistance is pointless!
Ageing and disillusioned, Faust makes a fateful pact with the satanic Mephistopheles with tragic results for those closest to him.
Based on Goethe’s classic German legend, the story remains timeless in its themes: the urge to remain young and desirable, the conflict between worldliness and spirituality, the repercussions of an unwanted pregnancy and the dilemmas posed by our choices.
Gounod’s music is a feast of well-known arias including the Jewel Song, the Golden Calf and the Soldiers’ Chorus. Faust combines exuberant drama, emotional poignancy and an irresistible whiff of decadence.
Guildford Opera will perform the opera in an English edition prepared by Peter Melville and are accompanied by a chamber orchestra - this perennial favourite will bring a thrill to the dark days of autumn: resistance is pointless!