Eleanor is Assistant Director for this production of Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust at the Wiener Staatsoper.

The concert premiere of La Damnation de Faust in Vienna took place almost 160 years to the day before the premiere date of this new production, on December 16, 1866, under the baton of the composer himself and with the participation of the Vienna Singverein. In Lydia Steier's new production, La Damnation de Faust receives its staged premiere at the Vienna State Opera.