Opera Scotland

Faust and Helen 2022Edinburgh International Festival

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Lili Boulanger's 1913 cantata revisits the highly familiar story of Faust's pact with Mephistopheles.

This very rare performance is given on period instruments.  It is followed by a performance in the original manner of Stravinsky's 1913 ballet The Rite of Spring.