Faust

Estates Theatre

Premiere: December 5, 2009

Music: Igor Stravinskij / Dmitry Shostakovich / John Williams / Petr Malásek
Libretto author: Zdeněk Prokeš / Libor Vaculík
Choreography: Libor Vaculík
Director: Libor Vaculík
Stage design: Martin Černý
Costumes: Roman Šolc
Choreographer’s Assistant : Nelly Danko / Igor Žukov / Radek Vrátil
Dramaturgy: Václav Janeček
Musical cooperation : Petr Malásek
Feustel: Jiří Kodym / Alexander Katsapov
Gretchen: Zuzana Susová / Adéla Pollertová
Mentes: Richard Kročil / Petr Zuska
Sabrina: Zuzana Šimáková / Nikola Márová
Walter: Tomáš Rychetský / Petr Strnad
Siegler: Jonáš Dolník / Jiří Waňka
Camlet: Mattia Mantellato / Jonáš Dolník
Cabaret girls: Tereza Ulrichová / Martina Vrátilová / Klára Jelínková / Radka Příhodová / Ivana Mikešová / Monika Maštalířová / Tereza Kučerová

After a break of several years, the choreographer and stage director par excellence Libor Vaculík is returning to the National Theatre Ballet. He has engraved himself in our audience’s consciousness as a creator of numerous highly acclaimed original ballets, enriching the National Theatre Ballet’s repertoire with distinctive and attractive titles akin to dance theatre. This time he will stage his own dance version of the Faust story. In line with the classical literary text, Libor Vaculík will raise the most essential, and apparently most frequent, questions concerning the sense of our desires and the price we are willing to pay for their fulfilment. In this production, Faust will deal with the timeless and still pressing themes of love, cognition, sacrifice and eternity in the shocking conditions our “civilisation” permitted (this time) in the period of World War II.