Faust: Pickup Truck Opera
Schedule
Sat Sep 07 2024 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm
Location
North Hennepin Community College | Brooklyn Park, MN
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It's French Romantic opera and new wave disco beats. It's a deal with the devil as humanity shoots for the moon. It's Mixed Precipitation's 16th annual summer opera extravaganza. This performance is free, with voluntary donations welcome online or at the performance. Recommended for all ages.
Adapted from composer Charles Gounod’s 1859 opera Faust, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michael Carré.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SITE
This performance is at North Hennepin Community College in the central quad.
PARKING is available in lots. Enter the lot from West Broadway and 84th Avenue North.
Follow the posted signage to the outdoor performance area on the north side of the Campus Center.
Bring a water bottle or beverage, sunscreen, and a folding chair or blanket to sit on the grass. Picnics are welcome. Please be neat and haul out your trash.
MORE INFO ABOUT THE SHOW
In the not-so-distant future, scientist and entrepreneur Dr. Johann Faust faces a planet in crisis but no motivation to spare humanity its fate. He yearns to find a life of meaning and love. Méphistophélès, a mysterious extraplanar entity with a devilish charm, appears with a bargain: Relocate Earth’s climate refugees to a lunar colony and win the love of the brilliant physicist Marguerite.
Together, Faust and his mysterious companion launch a fanatical quest to save humanity and reach beyond the limits of human potential. Dr. Faust finds himself torn between the love of his life and the conditions of his bargain. The music of Depeche Mode is laced into this tale, featuring the work of songwriters Vince Clarke and Martin Gore.
CAST and CREATIVE TEAM
Pickup Truck Opera: Volume 4—Faust is created from the combined talents of music director Gary Ruschman (returning for his seventh production with Mixed Precipitation), playwright and theologian Max Yeshaye, stage directors Scotty Reynolds and Jacob Miller, and the Mixed Precipitation ensemble.
Tenor Maurice Fields leads the cast as Faust. Bass Justin Spenner returns to Mixed Precipitation in the role of Méphistophélès, and sopranos Caroline Kouma and Corissa Bussian split the role of Marguerite. Galina Đorđević, Joshua Eidem, Joni Griffith, Jill Morgan, and Nick Miller play multiple roles and multiple instruments under the leadership of Ruschman.
This touring spectacle features the work of set designer Alex Hathaway, costume designer Rhiannon Fiskradatz, props designer Karly Bergman, and stage manager Ches Cipriano.
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Where is it happening?
North Hennepin Community College, 7411 85th Ave N,Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
