Gounod: Faust
Royal Opera, 11th April 2019
Mandy Fredrich’s plane from Hanover landed at London City Airport two hours before curtain up. The German soprano should have been heading to Bonn, preparing for a jump-in as Fifth Maid in Theater Bonn’s run of Elektra, but when Covent Garden calls, you drop everything to make your Royal Opera debut. She was replacing an indisposed Irina Lungu, who was herself stepping in for an injured Diana Damrau (slipped disc) as Marguerite in the fifth revival of Sir David McVicar’s production of Faust.
Erwin Schrott (Méphistophélès)
© ROH | Tristram Kenton
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