Faust (opera)
Faust is a grand 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 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part 1. It debuted at the Théâtre Lyrique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris on 19 March 1859.
Performance history
Faust was rejected by the Paris Opera, on the grounds that it was not sufficiently "showy", and its appearance at the Théatre-Lyrique was delayed for a year because Adolphe d'Ennery's drama Faust was playing at the Porte St. Martin. The manager Léon Carvalho (who cast his wife Marie Miolan-Carvalho as Marguerite) insisted on various changes during production, including cutting several numbers.
Faust was not initially well received. The publisher Antoine Choudens, who purchased the copyright for 10,000 francs, took the work (with added recitatives replacing the original spoken dialogue) on tour through Germany, Belgium, Italy and England, with Marie Miolan-Carvalho repeating her role.
Faust
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The Faust legend has been the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works that have reinterpreted it through the ages. "Faust" and the adjective "Faustian" imply a situation in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success for a delimited term.
The Faust of early books—as well as the ballads, dramas, movies, 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 and Mephistopheles to figures of vulgar fun. The story was popularised in England by Christopher Marlowe, who gave it a classic treatment in his play, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1604). In Goethe's reworking of the story two hundred years later, Faust becomes a dissatisfied intellectual who yearns for "more than earthly meat and drink" in his life.
Faust (disambiguation)
Faust is the protagonist of a popular German tale who makes a pact with the Devil; the tale is the basis of many works.
Works based on the tale of Faust
The name may refer to one of these notable works of art based on the tale:
Film
Literature
Faust (EWTC show)
Faust is the name of the show produced by the East West Theatre Company and directed by Haris Pasovic. The action is set in the foreseeable future and the script is based on texts by Emil Cioran, Bertrand Russell, Christopher Marlowe, Bill Joy, Werener Heisenberg and Haris Pasovic.
An international cast of actors and musicians have participated in the production which synthesizes drama, contemporary dance, acrobatics and music. Themes of the show include intelligence, politics and greed for knowledge, power and money. East West Theatre Company's Faust poses some of the fundamental questions about intellectual capacities, human measure and ethics.
The plot includes faustian bargain and the democratisation of evil Robots, who in this production, are more conscious than humans. Dr. Faust, the character who agrees to give his soul to the devil in exchange for superhuman powers while he is alive, creates bio-robots which develop the ability to decide for themselves and procreate. The robots, who resemble Ridley Scott's humanoid clones from his classic film "Blade Runner", show more emotion than Faust and abandon him altogether.
Podcasts:
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- Unreleased released: 2012
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- vildsint released: 2005
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- Shivalia Danz 2: The Second Vision (disc 1) released: 2004
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- Something Dirty released: 2011
- Faust Is Last released: 2010
- Schiphorst 2008 released: 2009
- C'est com... com... compliqué released: 2009
- Kleine Welt released: 2008
- Disconnected released: 2007
- Faust... In Autumn released: 2007
- Collectif Met(z) released: 2005
- Derbe Respect, Alder released: 2004
- Patchwork 1971-2002 released: 2002
- Freispiel released: 2002
- BBC Sessions + released: 2001
- Two Classic Albums From Faust: Faust / So Far released: 2000
- The Land of Ukko & Rauni released: 2000
- So Far released: 2000
- Ravvivando released: 1999
- Faust Wakes Nosferatu released: 1998
- Faust Wakes Nosferatu released: 1997
- You Know Faust released: 1996
- Rien released: 1995
- The Faust Concerts, Volume 2 released: 1994
- The Faust Concerts, Volume 1 released: 1994
- Faust IV released: 1993
- Faust released: 1991
- 71 Minutes of ... released: 1989
- The Last LP released: 1988
- V released: 1975
- The Faust Tapes released: 1973
- Outside the Dream Syndicate released: 1972
- Live in Oslo released:
Freispiel
Released 2002- T-Électronique (remixed by Mathias Schaffhäuser)
- Wir brauchen Dich #6 (remixed by Gel: Dave Ball & Ingo Vauk)
- Meltdown of T-Électronique & Apocalypse (remixed by Sofa Surfers)
- D.I.G. (remixed by Surgeon)
- Du Weißt Schon (remixed by Funkstörung)
- D.I.G. (remixed by Kreidler)
- Carousel II (remixed by Adriano Lanzi & Omar Sodano)
- Carousel II (remixed by Trillian)
- Four Plus Seven Means Eleven (remixed by Howie B.)
- Carousel II (remixed by Sunroof)
- T-Électronique (remixed by The Residents)
- Four Plus Seven Means Eleven (remixed by Dax & Pieper)
- Du weisst schon (remixed by Dead Voices on Air)
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- From Glory to Infinity released: 2009
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