Faust
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Lyric Opera gives the devil his due...when Lyric Opera of Chicago really gives the devil his due. Settings of the Faust legend by Gounod and Berlioz will take the stage of the Civic Opera House between now and mid-March. It was Gounod's turn on Monday night. The company's revival... In this article: Faust, Mephistopheles, Faust, Andrew Davis, Ana Maria Martinez, Civic Opera House, and Lyric Opera of Chicago |
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Wikipedia | September 21, 2009
Faust Symphony
...also employed. Hector Berlioz, who wrote his own version of Faust and became the eventual dedicatee of Liszt's Faust Symphony, introduced Liszt to Goethe's Faust in the 1830 through the French translation of Gerard de Nerval. Although...
In this article: Mephistopheles, Hector Berlioz, and George Henry Lewes
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La damnation de Faust
...(he called it a "legende dramatique"). Berlioz read Goethe's Faust Part One in 1828, in Gerard de Nerval's translation; "this marvelous book fascinated me from the first", he recalled in his Memoirs. "I could not put it down. I read it...
In this article: Mephistopheles, La damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz, Paris, Suicide, Marche, and Raoul Gunsbourg
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Album review: Schumann: Scenes From Goethe's Faust
...evidence. But it was Berlioz, Liszt and Schumann who tackled the subject and it is Schumann's oratorio-like Scenes from Goethe's Faust that features on this rosy disc by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Nikolaus Harnoncourt. It's not a...
In this article: Clara Schumann, Don Giovanni, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Hector Berlioz
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Centre Daily Times | November 23, 2008
Tenor's Met Opera feat: 2 major roles in a day
AP Photo In this Nov. 4, 2008 file file photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera, Marcello Giordani portrays Faust, in Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust," during the final dress rehearsal at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Giordani...
In this article: La damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz, NEW YORK, Metropolitan Opera, Madama Butterfly, and Metropolitan Opera House
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thestar.com | February 27, 2009
Dutoit makes Faust a piece of heaven
...the doctor's love interest, Marguerite, meets a sad end. In Berlioz's version, Marguerite is whisked to heaven, while Mephistopheles personally escorts Faust down into the pit of hell. It's interesting that, while embracing the Romantic...
In this article: Charles Dutoit, Hector Berlioz, Mephistopheles, Toronto Children's Chorus, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, The Damnation of Faust, God, and Gregory Kunde
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New York Times | May 04, 2009
Music Review 'La Damnation de Faust': The Devil Went Down to 57th St.
The Devil Went Down to 57th St. Goethe's tragic play "Faust" held a strong fascination for Berlioz from the very beginning of his career, as evidenced by an early setting of portions of the work from 1828. Berlioz would disown that version...
In this article: Simon Rattle, Hector Berlioz, Thomas Quasthoff, Mephistopheles, La damnation de Faust, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Magdalena Kozena
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Miami Herald - 5-minute Herald | March 07, 2009
The 'real Italian deal' comes to the Arsht
...well as several forays into French opera, including Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots and Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini, Les Troyens and The Damnataion of Faust. The character to whom he feels closest, though, is Count des Grieux, the romantic hero of...
In this article: Butterfly, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami, Florida, and God
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New York Post: Entertainment | November 28, 2008
MET PUTS ON ONE HELLUVA 'FAUST'
...version was conceived more along the lines of a concert presentation. The last time the Met served up this "Faust" with all the theatrical trimmings was back in 1906. Now, director Robert Lepage - of "Cirque du Soleil" fame - writes his own...
In this article: Susan Graham, Hector Berlioz, Robert Lepage, Amplification, Mephistopheles, and Don Giovanni
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Music Review - 'La Damnation de Faust': Between Hell and Heaven, a World of Morphing Imagery
...can be projected. Mr. Lepage's video-show staging certainly solves a problem inherent in Berlioz's unconventional score, a setting of scenes from Goethe's "Faust," adapted in a libretto by Berlioz and Almire Gandonniere. The fluid video...
In this article: Hector Berlioz, Robert Lepage, La damnation de Faust, Susan Graham, John Relyea, Mephistopheles, James Levine, and Metropolitan Opera
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Faust or Faustus (Latin for "auspicious" or "lucky", but also German for "fist") is the protagonist of a classic German legend who makes a pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge. Faust's tale is the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works, such as those by Christopher Marlowe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Mann, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Charles Gounod, Gustav Mahler, Mikhail Bulgakov, F. W. Murnau and Jan Švankmajer. The meaning of the word and name has been reinterpreted through the ages. "Faust" (and the adjective "Faustian") has taken on a connotation distinct from its original use, and is often used today to describe a person whose headstrong desire for self-fulfillment leads him or her in a diabolical direction.
The Faust of the early Faust-books—and of the ballads, dramas and puppet-plays which grew out of them—is irrevocably damned because he prefers human to divine knowledge; "he laid the Holy Scriptures behind the door and under the bench, refused to be called doctor of Theology, but preferred to be styled doctor of Medicine."
Plays and comic puppet theatre loosely based on this legend were popular throughout Germany in the 16th century, often reducing Faust to a figure of vulgar fun. The story was popularized in England by Christopher Marlowe, who gave it a classic treatment in his play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. But in Goethe's reworking of the story two centuries later, Faust becomes a dissatisfied intellectual who yearns for "more than earthly meat and drink."
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