SOLDIERS CHORUS, FROM GOUNOD´S "FAUST"

War, tasteful? Romanticism has its limits. Anyway when did France last win a war? Francophobism (if it's a word) beside, any work of art can be interpreted in the light of 'contemporary' attitudes. Do we still have to accept 19th century 'Jingoism' as matter of fact?

Good point there. I don't know why people gave you thumbs down..

cada wea que se ve hoy dia,mas parece un musical de Broadway

Crazy, idiotic staging. Who is the director who made such a mockery of this wonderful moment in Faust?

This staging is an embarrassment. I cannot imagine what the director could have been thinking. There are of course reasons why a director might want to try something "new" or "innovative," but this is just absurd. And why the overall Grand Pooh Bah of this company didn't step in and just say no is another question.

I just finished Faust with Opera Tampa. We were very proud of our Soldier's Chorus. I would not have been proud to have been a part of this.

For whatever it's worth, it's definitely not a failure to interpret the libretto. It's just staged to be very ironic, like Wilfred Owen's dream interpretation of 'gloire immortelle'.

I think it suffers mostly from trying to make the audience cynical about which Gounod was apparently quite serious, like the nobility of soldiering, and even, a little bit, religion (priest/camp follower juxtaposition).

And the whore-ladies? A bit much.

this should read "trying to make the audience cynical about THINGS which Gounod..."

Typos like these can only help my argument, I imagine.

All very true, if I may add, this is a representation of 17th and 18th century armies on campaign.
They had masses of camp followers with them (wives, whores etc)and the 'dirty men' mentioned below frequently wore their uniforms untill they rotted off their backs, cleanthiness was not common for most ranks and was porbably the least of their worries

I prefer Plasson at "Chorégies d'Orange"...

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