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Rodgers Luis Ledesma Horizon Lines Costume Designer Valentin Costume Transportation Air Canada Cargo Beebe Freitas Leon Williams Supertitles Coach/Rehearsal Pianist Wagner A&B Foundation Nola A. Nahulu Official Airline Buffy Baggott Continental Airlines Co-chorus Director Siébel Hotel Sue Sittko Schaefer Hawaii Prince Hotel Waikiki Dorothy Byrne Aston Hotels & Resorts Wig & Make-up Designer Marthe Schwerlein Opera For Everyone Gretchen Mueller Hawaii Hotel and Lodging Stage Manager Association Opera Express Leahi Swim School Hospitality Honolulu Club Lanai Lectures First Insurance Company of Hawaii Ltd. VIP Intermission Dessert The Kahala Hotel & Resort Wine MEDIA SPONSORS The Wine Stop FAUST SPONSORS Director Anela Kolohe Foundation HAWAII OPERA THEATRE – Suzanne B. Engel, President Hawaii Opera Plaza Conductor 848 South Beretania Street Physicians for Opera Suite 301 Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 Costumes HOT OFFICE 808.596.7372 Architects for Opera Meet the Stars Party Louis Vuitton www.hawaiiopera.org FAUST '%&& 3 18 19 20 CONTENTS FAUST'%&&q;:6IJG:H 9>G:8IDGÉHCDI:H HNCDEH>H DE:G6>CH><=IH DEVILISHL6 Y 8FAUST THE16 EVOLUTION DETAILED BY CHARLES GOUNOD OF FAUST Of the great European leg- Alone in his study, the aged Faust’s legendary deal with ends the Faust myth looms Dr. Faust despairs that his the Devil has intrigued large, the tale of a man lifelong search for a solution creative minds for centuries, dissatisfied with mature life to the riddle of life has been perhaps reaching its zenith who longs for youth and its in vain. Twice he raises a in the music, visual arts and blandishments. The devil goblet of poison to his lips literature of the Romantic offers him a year of youth in but falters when the songs period. 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It is clear from large: the tale of a man dissatisfied with mature life the prologue to Goethe’s epic that it is not the Creator’s intent that Owho longs for youth and its blandishments. The devil Faust go to Hell, but rather that he should gain wisdom. Thus offers him a year of youth in exchange for his immortal soul. I am Mephistopheles is allowed to offer him the bargain of a year of youth always impressed by the Germanic vision of the devil here: not for his soul. The Heavens know that the devil will lose the bargain. as an omnipotent opponent of God but as a truly fallen angel. In Like America’s Daniel Webster who sends the devil packing back the words of Goethe “the spirit that wishes to do evil and finally to Hell despite a hung jury of lost souls, Faust escapes at the end furthers good.” and, though his salvation is not as remarkable as Marguerite’s, he is certainly redeemed: thrown back to his own very human existence What do we know about Faust? Like every other title character to live out his fate without the benefit of the dark arts. in this year’s HOT season he is based on a historical personage. Johann Faustus is reputed to have lived in Nuremberg sometime And what of the devil? We are shown only one incarnation of hell: in the 1400s and to have been an alchemist and sometime healer Mephistopheles. An attractive and seductive fallen angel whose who had extensive knowledge of the dark side of human existence. energy infuses the village where Marguerite is resident, to give An academic, his relationship to good or evil is murky at best. In Faust his taste of youth regained. But he is far from omnipotent. The villagers can make him cower before the cross, and though we can imagine that he is not innocent of Marguerite’s fate, his power I]^h^hVi^bZaZhhaZ\ZcY wanes against the simplicity of her steadfast beliefs. It is not that evil d[\ddYVcYZk^aVcY cannot triumph but it does not here, despite the tricks and joy that Mephistopheles brings to his mission. In the cosmos established for i]Z\gdjcY^cWZilZZc Faust, the devil is but a part and parcel of creation: as much a part [gdbWn\dcZi^bZh# of the system and of humanity as we are ourselves. This is a timeless legend of good and evil and the ground in the Murnau 1920s film he is portrayed as a healer who has lost his between, it must be seen as such: a legend from bygone times when way: the sad puppet of a very decadent devil. In the opera he is one could believe that an external evil wandered the streets. It is an older man and then a very young lover, a bit naïve and a bit much easier than fighting an internal demon as later operas and incompetent to control the force that is supposedly serving him for later authors do. The murkiness of an internal evil is something a year before he surrenders his soul. Other opera composers have that will plague humanity through our own time. How much more seen him differently. comfortable to witness it outside our being! Yet Gounod’s Faust gives us something else to concentrate on: Opera audiences are spellbound by Gounod’s heroine, the village =Zcgn<#6`^cV maiden Marguerite who is opposed to all the blandishments of the devil, though not immune to Faust’s wooing. However, things start getting odd when she finds herself with child and, cursed by her own brother, she goes mad and is finally imprisoned for having caused the death of her child. In her madness she appeals to God and is redeemed. 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