Faust, Faust, and More Faust
In anticipation of WDAV's live broadcast of Opera Carolina's Faust (by Gounod) on Saturday, I was asked by another staff for examples of other music inspired by the Faust legend. So how about these:
Berlioz: Damnation of Faust
Spohr: Faust
Liszt: A Faust Symphony
Wagner: A Faust Overture
Schumann: "Faust" Concert Overture and oratorio
Mahler's Symphony No. 8 "Symphony of a Thousand" Part II
Ginastera: Overture to the Creole Faust
That's what I can think of. What about you? Can you add to this list?
Comments
I'm pretty sure Charles Gounod did a "Faust" opera for the Paris 'Theatre-Lyrique' in March, 1859
Posted by: Frank Natale | October 13, 2008 8:15 PM
Mefistofele, by Arrigo Boito, is another Faust opera that is still performed.
The Berlioz Damnation of Faust, in a new Metropolitan Opera production, can be seen in HD at movie theatres Nov. 22.
Posted by: Monika Brown | October 15, 2008 4:06 PM
Faust, by Petr Eben. In 1980 the Czech composer reworked the incidental music he wrote for a production of Goethe's Faust at Vienna's Burgtheater into an extended cycle for solo organ.
Posted by: Randy | October 17, 2008 9:22 AM