The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with Gounod’s Faust, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin in an encore broadcast from 2011.
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann starred in the title role as the scholar who trades his soul to regain his youth. Soprano Marina Poplavskaya sang Marguerite, Faust’s love interest and eventual victim, baritone Russell Braun was Marguerite’s brother Valentin, and bass René Pape sang the devil Méphistophélès.
In one of his early company appearances, Maestro Nézet-Séguin conducted the Met orchestra and chorus in Gounod’s lush, melodic score.
Faust will be heard over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 1:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, January 30. Listen to it on Classical IPR.
Find an English translation of the libretto for Gounod's Faust here.