The Auditorium of the Cueva de los Verdes will host the performance of 'Faust vs Mephistopheles' by the Lanzarote tenor Pancho Corujo within the 'Escena Lanzarote' program. The Performing Arts Festival, organized by the Centers for Art, Culture and Tourism, invites you to participate in the imagined meeting between Doctor Johann Fausten, theologian and practitioner of black magic, and Mephistopheles, a demon subject of the devil, described by the German bookseller Johann Spies in the year 1587.
"He had fame, success and money, but even with everything, he wanted more. Unsatisfied with his life and bored with his notoriety, he sold his soul to the devil for 24 years in exchange for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures." This is the brief synopsis of Faust, the famous character from a classic German legend that has served as the basis for numerous literary, artistic, cinematographic and musical works.
With the Lanzarote native Pancho Corujo, and with a libretto that combines pieces from the operas Faust (Charles Gounod, 1859) and Mephistopheles (Arrigo Boito, 1868), the Auditorium of the Cueva de los Verdes will provide the acoustics and plasticity of the underworld to become another character in a show that "will not leave anyone indifferent". It will be in a double performance, on Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November 9, in both cases at 8:00 p.m. Tickets to enjoy Faust vs Mephistopheles are on sale at cactlanzarote.com and festivalartesescenicaslanzarote.com.
The next event of 'Escena Lanzarote' will take place on November 30. That day, the Casa-Museo del Campesino will host 'Bhakti', by the company Mónica de la Fuente, an emotional and expressive journey through the most evocative sounds and flavors of India, a country in which music and dance merge and intermingle surprisingly to create sacred spaces.
About Pancho Corujo
Born in Lanzarote, Francisco Corujo -Pancho Corujo- (1980), has trained with Mª Célida Alzola and María Orán in the Canary Islands, Manuel Cid and Tom Krause at the Reina Sofía Higher School of Music, and with Carlo Bergonzi at the Verdiana Academy of Busseto. He made his debut in 2006 with Die Fledermaus for the Canary Opera Friends in Las Palmas, as Arbace in Idomeneo at the Teatro Real in Madrid and in A Coruña as Macduff in Macbeth. Since then he has performed in the main Spanish and Italian halls and theaters, as well as in places such as Tel Aviv, Lima, Cagliari, Toulouse, among others.
He has been awarded in competitions such as the Francisco Viñas or the Iris Adami Corradetti. In 2013 he presented his first album for the Playclassics label, together with the pianist Ángel Cabrera, dedicated to the Neapolitan composer Francesco Paolo Tosti.