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Faust and Marguerite is a romantic opera in three acts, dating from 1855, based on the Faust legend. The score was composed by Meyer Lutz. The libretto was written by Henri Drayton based on the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe play Faust. The 1900 film Faust and Marguerite is an adaptation of the play.
Marguerite's room / A public square outside her house / A cathedral [Note: The scenes of act 4 are sometimes given in a different order and portions are sometimes shortened or cut in performance.] [8] After being made pregnant and seemingly abandoned by Faust, Marguerite has given birth and is a social outcast. She sings an aria at her spinning ...
Goethe finished writing Faust, Part Two in 1831; it was published posthumously the following year. In contrast to Faust, Part One, the focus here is no longer on the soul of Faust, which has been sold to the devil, but rather on social phenomena such as psychology, history and politics, in addition to mystical and philosophical topics. The ...
Faust and Marguerite may refer to: Faust and Marguerite, an opera; Faust and Marguerite, directed by Edwin S. Porter; Faust and Marguerite, or Faust et Marguerite, directed by Georges Méliès; Faust and Marguerite, or Faust et Marguerite, starring Gaston Modot
Dr. Fausto by Jean-Paul Laurens abbr=on. Faust (/ f aʊ s t /; German:) is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (c. 1480–1540).The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at a crossroads, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.
The film is a fifteen-minute condensation of Faust, an 1859 opera by Charles Gounod based on the Faust legend. [1] The previous year, Méliès had used a different musical version of the legend, Hector Berlioz's La damnation de Faust, as inspiration for his film The Damnation of Faust. [2] Méliès took the role of Mephistopheles. [2]
Faust and Marguerite is a 1900 American silent trick film produced and distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company. [1] It was directed by Edwin S. Porter and based on the Michel Carré play Faust et Marguerite and the 1859 opera Faust adapted from the play by Charles Gounod .
Mephistopheles and Margaretta is a 19th-century wooden double sculpture featuring two images carved on opposite sides; it portrays two characters from German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1808 play Faust. The obverse depicts the demon Mephistopheles, and the reverse depicts a woman, Margaretta (Margaret, or Gretchen). A mirror placed ...