Pascal Dusapin / Peter Mussbach

Faustus, the Last Night

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Faustus, The Last Night
Opera in one night and eleven numbers (2004-2005)
Libretto: Pascal Dusapin after The Tragical History of Doctor
Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Music composed by Pascal Dusapin
Directed by Peter Mussbach
Set design: Michel Elmgreen, Ingar Dragset
Costume design: Andrea Schmidt-Futterer
Lighting design: Sven Hogrefe
Performed by Georg Nigl, Urban Malmberg, Robert Wörle, Jaco Huijpen, Caroline Stein
Orchestre of the Opéra National de Lyon
Conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer
Commissioned and produced by Staatsoper Unter den Linden/Berlin and Opéra National de Lyon
With the support of Fonds de Création Lyrique
Production of the performances in Paris : Théâtre du Châtelet with the Festival d'Automne à Paris

Faustus, The Last Night is an “an opera in one night and eleven numbers.”
To depict the myth of this frenzied and paranoid megalomaniac, Dusapin chose to go back to the original Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. This leads into a vast maze a la Borgès, a medley of excerpts from Dante, Flaubert and Olivier Cadiot, as well as Melville’s Bartleby and Shakespeare’s Sly in The Taming of the Shrew.