The Met continues further testing on its "atomic" Faust.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
Dez McAnuff's 2010 production of Gounod's Faust re-imagined Gounod's opera about a scholar who sells his soul to the devil as a metaphor for the creation and testing of the atomic bomb in the mid-20th century. While the spare staging featured an elegant Faust and Mephistopheles trading in lab coats for spiffy suits, audience and critical fallout was decidedly mixed.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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| Atomic babe: Marina Poplavskaya in Faust. Photo by Ken Howard © 2011 The Metropolitan Opera. |
