La Damnation de Faust
- 26/09/2026, from 20:00 to 22:15
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- 13/12/2026, from 15:00 to 17:15
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La Damnation de Faust by Hector Berlioz | Oper Graz
Hector Berlioz’s monumental descent-into-hell drama, inspired by Goethe’s Faust, Part I, combines orchestral force, demonic choruses and heavenly melodies in an unparalleled symphonic-dramatic hybrid form. Director Lorenzo Fioroni – most recently seen at Oper Graz with Britten’s War Requiem – joins Johannes Braun on the podium of the Graz Philharmonic to bring Berlioz’s ultimate Faust apocalypse to the stage of Oper Graz, in a spatial installation by the multi-award-winning stage designer Sebastian Hannak.
In his 1846 masterpiece, the French magician of sound Berlioz fragments Goethe’s myth into brilliantly illuminated individual visions and, with this artist’s tragedy of unrestrained means, creates a Romantic counter-concept to the classical dualism of reason and nature found in Goethe’s original.
For director Lorenzo Fioroni, La Damnation de Faust becomes an exploration of perception and understanding: the longing for simplicity and clear orientation is met by the present day with overload and the challenge of complexity. The planned production sees Berlioz’s idiosyncratic work as an invitation to a sensuous thought experiment, in which the mythical Faust material is questioned anew and becomes a mirror of a world out of joint.
Dramatic legend in four parts (1846/1893)
Text by the composer and Almire Gandonnière, after Faust, Part I by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the translation by Gérard de Nerval
In French with German surtitles
Public transport: Tram lines 1, 7 | Stop: Kaiser-Josef-Platz/Oper
