Faust: A Lyric Drama in Five Acts
By Jules Barbier, Michel Carré and Charles Gounod
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Faust - Jules Barbier
Charles Gounod, Michel Carré, Jules Barbier
Faust
A Lyric Drama in Five Acts
Published by Good Press, 2022
EAN 4057664592040
Table of Contents
GRAND OPERA LIBRETTOS
THE STORY OF THE ACTION
ACT I.
SCENE I.
SCENE II.
ACT II.
SCENE I.
SCENE II.
SCENE III.
SCENE IV.
SCENE V.
ACT III.
SCENE I.
SCENE II.
SCENE III.
SCENE IV.
SCENE V.
SCENE VI.
SCENE VII.
SCENE VIII.
SCENE IX.
SCENE X.
SCENE XI.
SCENE XII.
ACT IV.
SCENE I.
SCENE II.
SCENE III.
SCENE IV.
SCENE V.
SCENE VI.
SCENE VII.
ACT V.
SCENE I.
SCENE II.
ACTE PREMIER.
SCÈNE PREMIERE.
SCÈNE II.
ACTE DEUXIÈME.
SCÈNE PREMIÈRE.
SCÈNE II.
SCÈNE III.
SCÈNE IV.
SCÈNE V.
ACTE TROISIÈME.
SCÈNE PREMIÈRE.
SCÈNE II.
SCÈNE III.
SCÈNE IV.
SCÈNE V.
SCÈNE VI.
SCÈNE VII.
SCÈNE VIII.
SCÈNE IX.
SCÈNE X.
SCÈNE XI.
SCÈNE XII.
ACTE QUATRIEME.
SCÈNE PREMIERE.
SCÈNE II.
SCÈNE III.
SCÈNE IV.
SCÈNE V.
SCÈNE VI.
SCÈNE VII.
ACTE CINQUIÈME.
SCÈNE PREMIÈRE.
SCÈNE II.
Selected Aria Scores
ACT I:— A MOI LES PLAISIRS (OH, I WOULD HAVE PLEASURE)
ACT II:— WALTZ AND CHORUS
ACT III:— O NUIT D'AMOUR (O NIGHT OF LOVE)
ACT IV:— SOLDIER'S CHORUS
ACT V:— ANGES PUR, ANGES RADIEUX (HOLY ANGELS, IN HEAVEN BLEST)
Standard Opera Librettos
SONGS FROM THE OPERAS
GRAND OPERA
LIBRETTOS
Table of Contents
FRENCH
AND ENGLISH TEXT
AND MUSIC OF THE PRINCIPAL AIRS
FAUST
BY
GOUNOD
Boston : OLIVER DITSON COMPANY : New York
OPERA SCORES
All the vocal scores have English text together with the foreign text mentioned below. Unless otherwise specified, these books are bound in paper.
Send for Descriptive Circular P—Oratorios, Cantatas, Operas and Operettas.
OLIVER DITSON COMPANY
FAUST
A LYRIC DRAMA IN FIVE ACTS
BOOK BY
J. BARBIER AND M. CARRÉ
MUSIC BY
CHARLES GOUNOD
30
BOSTON: OLIVER DITSON COMPANY: NEW YORK
CHICAGO: LYON & HEALY, INC. LONDON: WINTHROP ROGERS, LTD.
Copyright MCMVI by Oliver Ditson Company
CHARACTERS
Peasants, Townspeople, Soldiers, Students, Priests, Boys, Etc.
The scene is in Germany in the sixteenth century.
PREFATORY NOTE
Table of Contents
The legend of the magician Faust and his compact with the Devil comes from remote antiquity. At first in the form of folk tales in many lands, through ballads and the primitive drama it found its way into literature. It remained for the master-poet, Goethe, to fuse all the elements of the legend into an imaginative drama of unequaled ethical and poetic interest, to give the story the form in which it appeals most strongly to the modern mind.
Innumerable musical works of every form have drawn inspiration from the story of Faust. Wagner's concert-overture, Liszt's symphony, and the beautiful fragments by Schumann are among the noblest of such works. Stage versions of the legend have been numerous, but the first really poetic creation was Spohr's opera of Faust,
composed in 1813. Since its appearance there has been an abundance of Faust operas by English, German, French and Italian composers down to the imaginative but fragmentary Mefistofele
of Boito (1868). But of all the stage versions that have claimed the public attention, that of Barbier and Carré, made after Goethe's drama and set to music by Charles Gounod, is far and away the most popular, and may be regarded, in its lyric dress, as the most successful also. There exists scarcely a single rival to the popularity of Gounod's Faust
among opera-goers.
The love story with which the French librettists concerned themselves exclusively is wholly Goethe's conception, and finds no place in the old legends concerning the magician Faust. With true Gallic instinct they seized this pathetic episode as being