From a new take on Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” at the Palais Garnier in Paris to French opera in a classic production from New York, here is a selection of coming live cinema broadcasts. Also on the horizon are free streams of Wagner and Strauss in Germany. Gounod’s “Faust”April 30David McVicar’s 2004 staging returns to Covent Garden with the tenor Michael Fabiano as the title character and the bass-baritone Erwin Schrott as the taunting Méphistophélès, to whom Faust sells his soul. The production sets the action in 1870s Paris, drawing parallels between the plight of Faust and the conflicted loyalty of the composer, Charles Gounod, to the theater and the Roman Catholic Church. Dan Ettinger conducts a cast that further includes the soprano Irina Lungu as Marguerite and the baritone Stéphane Degout — who portrayed the king in George Benjamin’s 2018 opera “Lessons in Love and Violence” — as her brother, Valentin.

Source: International New York Times April 26, 2019 03:56 UTC