Charles Gounod Faust - Metropolitan Opera
Charles Gounod Faust - Metropolitan Opera Charles Gounod Faust - Metropolitan Opera
The Cast Alain Altinoglu conductor (paris, france) this season Otello and Faust at the Met, Der Fliegende Holländer at the Zurich Opera and London’s Royal Albert Hall, Henri Rabaud’s Mârouf, Savetier du Caire at Paris’s Opéra Comique, and orchestral engagements in Paris, Dresden, Mannheim, Zurich, Lyon, and Vienna, among others. met appearances Carmen (debut, 2010). career highlights His recent opera projects include Faust at the Paris Opera and Vienna State Opera, Falstaff at the Vienna State Opera, Massenet’s Cendrillon at Brussels’s La Monnaie, Rigoletto in Cologne, and Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges at the Paris Opera. He has also led Don Giovanni at Covent Garden and the Paris Opera, Faust at the Berlin State Opera, and Falstaff at Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. He has conducted the Berlin Staatskapelle, Orchestre National d’Île-France, and Lyon Orchestra, and at the San Francisco Opera, Salzburg Festival, and at Buenos Aires’s Teatro Colón. Julie Boulianne mezzo-soprano (dolbeau-mistassini, canada) this season Siébel in Faust and Ascanio in Les Troyens at the Met, Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi with L’Opéra de Reims, and her debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. met appearances Diane in Iphigénie en Tauride (debut, 2011) and Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette. career highlights Recent performances include Miranda in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest for her debut with the Quebec Opera, her Japanese debut at the Saito Kinen Festival in Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher, and her Mostly Mozart debut in Haydn’s Nelson Mass. She has also sung the title role of Handel’s Tolomeo with the Glimmerglass Opera, Lazuli in Chabrier’s L’Étoile with New York City Opera, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro with Vancouver Opera, the title role of Massenet’s Cendrillon in Montreal and Marseille, and Angelina in La Cenerentola at Aspen Opera Theater, Florida Grand Opera, and Glimmerglass Opera. Additional performances include Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with the Minnesota Opera and Zerlina in Don Giovanni in Avignon. 44
Marina Poplavskaya soprano (moscow, russia) this season Marguerite in Faust at the Met, Alice in Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable at Covent Garden, Lucrezia in I Due Foscari at the Los Angeles Opera, Gutrune in Götterdämmerung at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin and La Scala, and Violetta in La Traviata for the Netherlands Opera. met appearances Elisabeth in Don Carlo, Violetta, Liù in Turandot, and Natasha in War and Peace (debut, 2007). career highlights Recent performances include Violetta at Covent Garden, the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, and Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, Marfa in The Tsar’s Bride at Covent Garden, Amelia in Simon Boccanegra at the Vienna State Opera, Leonora in Il Trovatore in Brussels, and Micaëla in Carmen in Barcelona. She has also sung Rachel in La Juive, Amelia, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, and Elisabeth at Covent Garden, Desdemona in Otello at the Salzburg Festival and Rome Opera, Marguerite at the Berlin State Opera, Mathilde in Guillaume Tell in Amsterdam, and Maria in Mazeppa and Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress at the Bolshoi Opera. Piotr Beczala tenor (czechowice-dziedzice, poland) this season The Duke in Rigoletto and the title role of Faust at the Met, Rodolfo in La Bohème at La Scala and the Vienna State Opera, the Prince in Rusalka in Warsaw, Alfredo in La Traviata with Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, and Roméo in Roméo et Juliette with the Vienna State Opera. met appearances Des Grieux in Manon, Rodolfo, Roméo, Lenski in Eugene Onegin, and the Duke (debut, 2006). career highlights Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, the Italian Tenor in Der Rosenkavalier, Vaudémont in Iolanta, and the Prince at the Salzburg Festival, the Duke at Covent Garden and La Scala, Alfredo in Munich and Berlin, and Werther in Frankfurt and Munich. He has also sung Tamino in Die Zauberflöte in Vienna, Berlin, and Paris, Jeník in The Bartered Bride with the Paris Opera and in Zurich, Rodolfo in Amsterdam, Vaudémont in Vienna and Moscow, and Lenski at Paris’s Bastille Opera and for his 2004 United States debut with the San Francisco Opera. 45
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The Cast<br />
Alain Altinoglu<br />
conductor (paris, france)<br />
this season Otello and <strong>Faust</strong> at the Met, Der Fliegende Holländer at the Zurich <strong>Opera</strong><br />
and London’s Royal Albert Hall, Henri Rabaud’s Mârouf, Savetier du Caire at Paris’s Opéra<br />
Comique, and orchestral engagements in Paris, Dresden, Mannheim, Zurich, Lyon, and<br />
Vienna, among others.<br />
met appearances Carmen (debut, 2010).<br />
career highlights His recent opera projects include <strong>Faust</strong> at the Paris <strong>Opera</strong> and Vienna<br />
State <strong>Opera</strong>, Falstaff at the Vienna State <strong>Opera</strong>, Massenet’s Cendrillon at Brussels’s La<br />
Monnaie, Rigoletto in Cologne, and Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges at the Paris<br />
<strong>Opera</strong>. He has also led Don Giovanni at Covent Garden and the Paris <strong>Opera</strong>, <strong>Faust</strong> at the<br />
Berlin State <strong>Opera</strong>, and Falstaff at Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. He has conducted<br />
the Berlin Staatskapelle, Orchestre National d’Île-France, and Lyon Orchestra, and at the<br />
San Francisco <strong>Opera</strong>, Salzburg Festival, and at Buenos Aires’s Teatro Colón.<br />
Julie Boulianne<br />
mezzo-soprano (dolbeau-mistassini, canada)<br />
this season Siébel in <strong>Faust</strong> and Ascanio in Les Troyens at the Met, Romeo in I Capuleti e<br />
i Montecchi with L’Opéra de Reims, and her debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.<br />
met appearances Diane in Iphigénie en Tauride (debut, 2011) and Stéphano in Roméo et<br />
Juliette.<br />
career highlights Recent performances include Miranda in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest<br />
for her debut with the Quebec <strong>Opera</strong>, her Japanese debut at the Saito Kinen Festival<br />
in Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher, and her Mostly Mozart debut in Haydn’s Nelson<br />
Mass. She has also sung the title role of Handel’s Tolomeo with the Glimmerglass <strong>Opera</strong>,<br />
Lazuli in Chabrier’s L’Étoile with New York City <strong>Opera</strong>, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro<br />
with Vancouver <strong>Opera</strong>, the title role of Massenet’s Cendrillon in Montreal and Marseille,<br />
and Angelina in La Cenerentola at Aspen <strong>Opera</strong> Theater, Florida Grand <strong>Opera</strong>, and<br />
Glimmerglass <strong>Opera</strong>. Additional performances include Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia<br />
with the Minnesota <strong>Opera</strong> and Zerlina in Don Giovanni in Avignon.<br />
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