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?
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I’m pretty sure Charles Gounod did a “Faust” opera for the Paris ‘Theatre-Lyrique’ in March, 1859
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.
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.