With Jean-Claude Colbus, former senior lecturer at the Sorbonne (Paris-IV), specialist in historiography in German-speaking countries (15th-16th c.). In partnership with the Cercle Richard Wagner, Strasbourg.
Created in 1859, Charles Gounod's romantic and fantastic masterpiece is an original transposition of the 'Faust' myth to the French context. Goethe's tragedy, about an old scholar who sells his soul to the devil, seems to boil down in this opera to the tragic love story between Faust and Marguerite. Thanks to a rich iconography and a few musical extracts, this lecture - which requires no knowledge of the German language - aims to "give to see and hear", through Gounod's opera, the metamorphoses of a universal myth that has reflected, for nearly five centuries, our existential interrogations.
Thu.13.03 | 6.30pm | Conference | Auditorium | Free | Reservation required
Created in 1859, Charles Gounod's romantic and fantastic masterpiece is an original transposition of the 'Faust' myth to the French context. Goethe's tragedy, about an old scholar who sells his soul to the devil, seems to boil down in this opera to the tragic love story between Faust and Marguerite. Thanks to a rich iconography and a few musical extracts, this lecture - which requires no knowledge of the German language - aims to "give to see and hear", through Gounod's opera, the metamorphoses of a universal myth that has reflected, for nearly five centuries, our existential interrogations.
Thu.13.03 | 6.30pm | Conference | Auditorium | Free | Reservation required
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