melologue for voice and piano
from ‘FAUST’ by J.W. Goethe
created, directed and produced by Peter Stein for Expo Hannover 2000
music by Arturo Annecchino
GIOVANNI VITALETTI piano
PETER STEIN voice
artistic collaboration Luciano Colavero
project coordinated by
Change Performing Arts / CRT Artificio
At the Expo 2000 in Hannover, Peter Stein created and directed a 21-hour-production of Goethe's Faust with two stages and a cast of 35 actors. This production was later presented in Vienna and Berlin. Because of the size it was impossible restage the work.
It was a unique event, of which Peter Stein and Arturo Annecchino, author of the music of the uncut version of Faust, decide to give a new life creating a melologue with voice and piano. For the first time in his career Peter Stein put himself on stage, facing the German poet and revealing the amazing charm of the great performers.
With him on stage the pianist Giovanni Vitaletti who accompanies Stein in his performance of a selection of the verses from the first part of Faust.
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‘Faust Fantasia is a concert composed by Arturo Annecchino, who had already written for me the music of Faust in 2000. At the end of that project he decided to compose a fantasia, concentrating on some elements and themes of the first part of Faust. Faust is an huge poem, in two parts. The first part is the most famous and the one internationally known. Even if the second part is the most important, it is less popular; everyone knows only the end, when Faust is saved.
Faust Fantasia is a concert for voice and piano. At the beginning the pianist Giovanni Vitaletti plays a series of themes related to Faust’s scores, while I perform a monologue of Faust. Then he plays another piece and I play a monologue of Mefistopheles. Afterwards the story is more complicated, there are dialogues, the Walpurgis night, the love of Faust and Margaret, the sad end. It is a fantasia, an impromptu on some elements of Faust that occupied the imagery of many artists during the centuries’
(Peter Stein interviewed by José Comas for El Pais, 19.05.2007)
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PRODUCTION DATES
Madrid, Teatro de Madrid, 20 May 2007
Benevento, Teatro Comunale, 7 September 2007
Wien, Art Carnuntum Festival, 14 September 2007
Siracusa, Ortigia Festival, 21 September 2007
Milan, Teatro Arcimboldi, 24 November 2007
Frankfurt, Stadtische Buehne, 31 October 2008
Warsaw, Redutowa Hall Teatr Wielki, 23 September 2008
Moscow, Theatre of Nations, 25 September 2008
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