Ferruccio Busoni Doktor Faust
Poetry for music with two introductions, one interlude and three main pictures
Libretto by Ferruccio Busoni In the version by Philipp Jarnach
Sung in German
New production
First performance
Coproduction with the Metropolitan Opera, New York
Supported by Alberto Vilar
PREMIERE
- 07 August 1999, 18:30
- 12 August 1999, 18:30
- 19 August 1999, 18:30
- 23 August 1999, 18:30
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Kent Nagano, Conductor
Peter Mussbach, Stage director
Erich Wonder, Stage sets
Andrea Schmidt-Futterer, Costumes
Konrad Lindenberg, Lighting design
Donald Palumbo, Chorus master
Thomas Hampson, Doktor Faust
Chris Merritt, Mephistopheles
László Polgár, Wagner
Kurt Schreibmayer, Herzog of Parma
Katarina Dalayman, Herzogin of Parma
William Dazeley, Soldat
Guy Renard, A Lieutenant
Thomas W. Kuckler, Markus Eiche, Bernd Hofmann, Three Students from Krakau
Marek Gasztecki, Theologian
Markus Eiche, Judge
William Dazeley, Scholar of nature
Jonas Kaufmann, Thomas W. Kuckler, Walter Zeh, Guy Renard, Daniel Kirch, Five Students in Wittenberg
Marek Gasztecki, Gravis
Bernd Hofmann, Levis
William Dazeley, Asmodus
Guy Renard, Belzebuth
Daniel Kirch, Megäros
Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Stage music
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic