Faust
Opera
Opera...and cynical works such as Orphee aux enfers, as well as the opera Les Contes d'Hoffmann; Charles Gounod scored a massive success with Faust ''; and Bizet composed ''Carmen, which, once audiences learned to accept its blend of Romanticism... In this article: Richard Wagner, George Frideric Handel, Henry Purcell, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Arne, Giuseppe Verdi, Carl Maria von Weber, and Dafne |
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boston.com - Latest music news | November 22, 2008
Tenor's Met Opera feat: 2 major roles in a day
...in a day 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, E-mail, Metropolitan Opera, Madama Butterfly, New York, and All rights reserved
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Wikipedia | October 19, 2009
Suzanne Juyol
...1942, as Margared in Le roi d'Ys, followed by Faure's Penelope, Dukas's Ariadne, Marguerite in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust and in Gounod's Faust ''. Her debut at the Opera-Comique took place in 1946, as Charlotte in ''Werther, other roles...
In this article: Suzanne Juyol, Carmen, Paris, Tosca, Tristan und Isolde, La damnation de Faust, Le roi d'Ys, Cavalleria rusticana, and Max Lorenz
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Chicago Sun-Times | January 28, 2009
Full speed ahead for Lyric in 2009-10
...in January.) British director Stephen Langridge's new production of "The Damnation of Faust," Lyric's first Berlioz work, will follow a fall revival of Charles Gounod's "Faust," his popular retelling of the German legend. Lyric music...
In this article: Tosca, The Damnation of Faust, Charles Gounod, Emmanuel Villaume, Katya Kabanova, Andrew Davis, Hector Berlioz, Metropolitan Opera, and Chicago
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www.theherald.co.uk
Hunt is on to find the real Hendrix
...attendance to witness the presentation of an Angel award to Ofelia Popii for her stunning contribution to Silviu Purcarete's staging of Goethe's Faust. advertisement The show, which its creators never imagined would be seen outside the...
In this article: Marsha Hunt, National Youth Choir of Scotland, and Jimi Hendrix
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Wikipedia | October 16, 2009
Grand Opera
...previous scale were not so commercially viable. The popular Faust '' (1859) by Charles Gounod started life as an opera comique, and did not become a ''grand opera until rewritten in the 1860s. Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz (composed from...
In this article: Giacomo Meyerbeer, Richard Wagner, Paris, Eugene Scribe, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Hector Berlioz, La Juive, Elie Halevy, and Gaspare Spontini
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New York Times | November 06, 2008
Techno-Alchemy at the Opera
...level of technological stagecraft to the house. While video and projection entered the opera staging manual years ago, this "Faust" is the Met's first interactive opera. The technology allows the singers' motion and voices, as...
In this article: Robert Lepage, Faust, Mephistopheles, Faust, John Relyea, Metropolitan Opera, and Hallucination
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New York Times | October 30, 2008
Music: The Lone Voice That Unites the Chorus
Published: October 30, 2008 HOWEVER you wish to label Berlioz's "Damnation de Faust" a dramatic cantata, scenes from Goethe's "Faust," an opera of the mind, a futuristic musical fantasy or (as Berlioz called it) a "legende...
In this article: La damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz, James Levine, Philip Glass, Metropolitan Opera, Mephistopheles, and Faust
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Faust is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Goethe's Faust, Part 1. It debuted at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris on March 19, 1859.
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