Ballet / Stage Work
Faust*
A full-evening ballet with music by Lera Auerbach, choreographed by Goyo Montero for Staatstheater Nürnberg Ballett — a theatrical encounter with the Faust myth through dance, shadow, transformation, and metaphysical wager.
World Premiere
Premiered on 8 December 2012 at Opernhaus Nürnberg. Created for Staatstheater Nürnberg Ballett with Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg.
Literary Sources
After texts by Goethe, Thomas Mann, Mikhail Bulgakov, and William Blake. Montero’s stage conception draws the Faust myth into a broader field of temptation, knowledge, infernal pact, and spiritual judgment.
Music
Music by Lera Auerbach. The score forms the psychological and theatrical architecture of the ballet’s two-act dramatic world.
Structure
- Act I The world of striving, temptation, bargain, apparition, and forbidden transformation.
- Act II The human cost of desire unfolds through movement, image, consequence, and judgment.
- Dramatic Line Faust becomes a physical drama of soul, body, shadow, hunger, and metaphysical wager.
Work Information
Creative Team
- Music Lera Auerbach.
- Overall Concept, Choreography and Staging Goyo Montero.
- Musical Direction Philipp Pointner.
- Set / Décor Verena Hemmerlein and Goyo Montero.
- Costumes Angelo Alberto and Goyo Montero.
- Light Design Olaf Lundt and Goyo Montero.
- Production Photography Jesús Vallinas.
Production Credits
Dramatic World
Faust belongs to the lineage of works in which a human being reaches beyond ordinary limits: knowledge, pleasure, youth, power, and the dream of mastery over time. In ballet, this myth becomes intensely physical.
Auerbach’s music gives the story a terrain of pressure and fracture: temptation as rhythm, desire as propulsion, memory as shadow, and judgment as atmosphere. Montero’s choreography translates the myth into a theatrical body — restless, divided, and driven toward transformation.
The result is not only a retelling of a legend, but a stage work about the danger of infinite appetite: what is gained, what is sacrificed, and what remains when the wager has been made.
* Catalogue marker: ballet / stage work with music by Lera Auerbach.
Online Materials
Preview, References and Production Sources
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PreviewVimeo
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Work PageFAUST. Ballet in 2 Acts leraauerbach.com
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ChoreographerGoyo Montero: Faust goyomontero.com
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Archive VideoStaatstheater Nürnberg Digital Fundus Staatstheater Nürnberg
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ReviewMephisto, mir graut vor dir Die Deutsche Bühne
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Repertoire PDF15 Jahre Staatstheater Nürnberg Ballett Staatstheater Nürnberg
Resources and Materials
Work-specific rental or publisher listing not confirmed from available online sources. For performance materials, use the official work page or contact Lera Auerbach Studio / the artist’s representatives. The production record is documented through Lera Auerbach’s official work page, Goyo Montero’s official production page, and the Staatstheater Nürnberg Digital Fundus.
