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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 ...
Marguerite's bedroom. Marguerite is waiting for Faust to appear, but is having trouble remembering his name, as she relives the pleasure she has experienced with a number of past lovers, one in particular called Adolphe. Faust comes in and Marguerite tries to give him some idea of her past life, praying to God for forgiveness.
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
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 up to Date is a musical burlesque with a libretto was written by G. R. Sims and Henry Pettitt, and a score written by Meyer Lutz (a few songs by others were interpolated into the show). Set in Nuremberg , it is a spoof of Gounod 's opera, Faust , which had first been performed in London in 1864.
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]
Emilie Mayer's Faust Overture (1880) Jean Roger-Ducasse's Au jardin de Marguerite, symphonic poem with chorus (1905) Gustav Mahler's Part II of Symphony No. 8 (1906–07) Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Sonata No.1 (1908) Lili Boulanger's Faust et Hélène (1913) Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony (1919–27) and opera Faust; Julius Röntgen's Aus ...