Faust
Wolf Trap Opera 2023
Composer: Charles Gounod Librettist: Jules Barbier Director: Alison Moritz Conductor: Geoffrey McDonald Set Designer: Lawrence Moten Costume Designer: Lynly A. Saunders Lighting Designer: Colin K. Bills Hair and Makeup Designer: Priscilla Bruce Photography: Scott Suchman
“Costume designer Lynly Saunders receives high praise for helping to evoke the era. Her costumes included 1800s costumes with fans and umbrellas, topped with beautiful hats. Soldiers wore cowboy boots, leather-holstered guns, and somewhat Western-style regalia in order to represent the Louisiana lifestyle.
On the subject of Acadiana, what is Louisiana without Mardi Gras? In a Louisiana version of Walpurgisnacht (in which Méphistophélès attempts to have Faust forget his troubles and his sense of guilt for abandoning Marguerite), the devil comes in Mardi Gras costume—this time, as a classical devil wearing horns.”
- Maryland Theatre Guide