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	Damnation of Faust - Oratorios And Masses
		The " Damnation of Faust," composed by Hector Berlioz, is, strictly speaking, neither an oratorio, a cantata, nor an opera, although it partakes of the qualities of all three.
		Faust agrees and is transported to Auerbach's tavern at Leipsic.
		The "Damnation of Faust" had its first American performance Feb. 12, 1880, when it was given by the Symphony Society, assisted by the Oratorio and Arion Societies of New York, under the direction of Dr. L.
	www.tribalsmile.com /music/article_365.shtml (1215 words)

	Faust
		Ironically, however, this relatively obscure character Faust has come to be preserved in legend as the representative magician of the age from which came such occultists and seers as Paracelsus, Nostradamus, and Agrippa von Nettesheim.
		Faust appears to be arrogant in his adventurers of flying over various parts of the earth just to satisfy his intellectual curiosity and performing feats of magic.
		Faust discovers his escape was not in the servitude of Mephistopheles but in Gretchen herself.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/f/faust.html (1368 words)

	The Damnation of Faust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Damnation of Faust (French: La damnation de Faust) is work for orchestra, voices, and chorus written by Hector Berlioz (he called it a "légende dramatique").
		The libretto was adapted by Berlioz from Goethe's Faust.
		The Damnation of Faust is performed regularly in concert halls and occasionally staged as an opera.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Damnation_of_Faust (803 words)

	Faust » Damnation
		In some forms of Western Christian belief, damnation to hell is the punishment of God for persons with unredeemed sin.
		Damnation can be a motivator for conversions to Christianity.
		One conception is of eternal suffering and denial of entrance to heaven, often symbolized in the Bible as burning and fire.
	www.faust.com /index.php/legend/damnation (534 words)

	Opera Today : BERLIOZ: La damnation de Faust
		Faust, alone on a plain at sunrise, praises the awakening spring day, nature's renewal and his own life in solitude, far from the madding crowd.
		Faust dislikes the drinkers' raucous singing, Brander's coarse song about the "Rat in the Cellar," and Méphistophélès' cynical reply with his "Song of the Flea." He insists they leave without delay.
		Faust, dammed until eternity, is thrown into the flames; Méphistophélès is triumphant.
	www.operatoday.com /content/2005/12/berlioz_la_damn.php (909 words)

	Faust
		Faust laments that though he has studied philosophy, medicine, law, and theology he really knows nothing about the inner workings of the universe.
		Faust agrees on one condition: The adventure must culminate in a moment when he experiences the highest, most exquisite pleasure attainable by man. After Mephistopheles accepts the condition, they sign a pact in blood.
		Faust shares in common with the rest of humankind an inborn desire to know as much as possible about the material and spiritual worlds.
	www.cummingsstudyguides.net /Faust.html (3339 words)

	Mystical World Wide Web - Faust (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ironically the relatively obscure Faust came to be remembered in legend as the representative of an age which produced such occultists as Paracelsus and Nostradamus.
		Faust owes his enduring notoriety to the anonymous author of the first 'Faustbuch', a collection of tales of the 'Magi' (wise men skilled in science and the occult) which had been told since the Middle Ages and featured such renowned 'wizards' as Merlin, Albertus Magnus and Roger Bacon.
		They were crudely narrated and supplemented with clumsy humour at the expense of Faust's victims.It was less the stories themselves and more the author's graphic and unflinching descriptions of hell and the state of his hero's mind which inspired unquestioning belief among readers.
	www.mystical-www.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /faust.htm (704 words)

	Faust Timeline
		The historical Faust died, perhaps in an accidental explosion while practising alchemy.
		Premiere of Gounod's opera Faust et Marguerite in Paris.
		Max Reinhardt directs Goethe's Faust I and II on a rotating stage in the Deutsches Theater, Berlin.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~esleben/faust/fausttimeline.html (595 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Damnation of Faust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Published On By ROBERT M. Among the musical versions of the Faust legend (including the operas of Gounod, Boito, and Busoni), Berlioz' Damnation of Faust is unique.
		Faust stands in contrast to the vast impersonal forces of Nature, the earthy pleasures of the Folk, and Satan's cynical malice.
		But the Damnation of Faust is not a mere succession of orchestral and choral "effects." Besides dramatic fireworks, it contains pages of melodic beauty--like Marguerite's Romance--that place it among the most inspired works of the Romantic period.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=200878 (436 words)

	Music review: Tenor makes Faust a dramatic vocal feast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Its structure is episodic, sketching the story of Faust, Mephistopheles and Marguerite in 20 scenes organized in four parts.
		But as in all of Berlioz's greatest choral/orchestral music, The Damnation of Faust is compelling music, particularly when in the hands of music director Christoph Eschenbach and a Faust as mesmerizing as tenor Vincent Cole.
		The final performance of The Damnation of Faust is at 8 tonight.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/96/05/20/ward-faust.html (620 words)

	OPERA REVIEW: Why (the Hell) Not? By George Thomson (San Francisco Opera, Donald Runnicles, Kristinn Sigmundsson, David ...
		In the score to his Damnation de Faust, for example, he obligingly provides seating instructions, should you happen to have a childrens' chorus of two or three hundred voices handy for the five minutes of music at the very end.
		Conjured up by Mephistopheles for the dream-sequences of Faust and Marguerite, the utter joylessness of all this activity was surely deliberate, even moralistic, but it had all the visual allure of a particularly unwieldy game of Twister played half-heartedly by people in improbably tattered scuba gear.
		And hearing, for that matter; David Kuebler sang the demanding role of Faust with considerable lyricism, but his voice seemed ill-suited to the size of the hall and to his often problematic placement above and behind the chorus.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/damnation_6_17_03.php (1274 words)

	BERLIOZ THE DAMNATION OF FAUST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The second attempt, which is the current form of Damnation, was much grander in scale, and the movements flow from one to another more smoothly in telling the story of Faust.
		The Damnation of Faust was composed as a 'dramatic legend' rather than as an opera, and is usually performed in concert form rather than in a staged form with costumes and scenery and contrived movements as is the case with 'real' operas.
		Here, Faust has reached the abyss of darkness, and exchanges between the demon princes and Mephistopheles are heard.
	www.londonfoodfilmfiesta.co.uk /Musicm~1/Faust.htm (610 words)

	La Damnation de Faust - Hector Berlioz
		The roots of the Faust story go back to early 16th century Germany where there was a Georg Faust, widely thought at the time to be dabbling in the fl arts.
		In the second part (of four), Faust is in his study contemplating suicide when he hears an Easter hymn (Christ is Risen), an exquisitely ethereal piece for the chorus.
		Mephistopheles tells Faust that Margeurite is in prison awaiting execution for killing her mother; in exchange for her release, guilt-ridden Faust signs his contract with the Devil and descends to Hell as Mephistopheles rejoices in his fall.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera/Damnation.htm (755 words)

	Wales Millennium Centre - The Damnation of Faust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		From the solitude of Faust’s study to Auerbach’s raucous cellar and the banks of the
		With Berlioz’s Mephistopheles, arguably one of the most memorable and diabolical characterisations of the devil in existence, Faust is musically and theatrically packed full of opportunities for all the artists.
		Faust is a real showcase for the Chorus and Orchestra of WNO with the internationally-renowned soloists Eric Cutler and Ann Murray.
	www.wmc.org.uk /index.cfm?alias=wnpdamn (168 words)

	+INFO: THE DAMNATION OF FAUST (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The contradiction Faust is trapped in, the battle between the senses and the reason, is something that´s being increased at the end of that century.
		Faust is in the air and not only because of the Goethe anniversary.
		The composer wrote this work about Faust because they have a point in common: Faust is looking for transformation, closing the big circle that is life itself.
	www.lafura.com.cob-web.org:8888 /eng/operas/infocondena.htm (2703 words)

	Berlioz Damnation of Faust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The electrifying effect of the first performance in Budapest incited Berlioz to include it in La Damnation de Faust which he was composing at the time (Memoirs, chapter 54, also in Texts and Documents).
		But a complete performance of the Damnation in Vienna did not take place until December 1866 when Berlioz, responding to the invitation of the conductor Johann von Herbeck, came to conduct a large-scale and triumphant performance of the work in the Redoutensaal, ‘the greatest joy of my musical life’, he wrote afterwards.
		This piece, from Part III of La Damnation, follows a summons by Mephistopheles to the Wills-o’-the-Wisps to cast their spell on Marguerite who is about to meet Faust.
	www.hberlioz.com /Scores/sdamnation.htm (482 words)

	Hector Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
		The author of The Damnation of Faust has merely borrowed from Goethe a few scenes for inclusion in the plan he had already sketched out, scenes whose fascination proved impossible for him to resist.
		The legend of Doctor Faust may be treated in ever so many ways: it is public property, and was dramatized well before Goethe's time; it had long circulated in varied forms in the literature of northern Europe ere Goethe took hold of it.
		As to the German verses sung in The Damnation of Faust, which are Goethe's in altered form, they must obviously offend German ears, just as the verses of Racine needlessly altered in Gluck's Iphigenia must shock the French.
	www.baerenreiter.com /html/vosco/damnation.htm (606 words)

	DVD Damnation of Faust : Classical CD Reviews-August 2000 Music on the Web(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust is a difficult work to stage with all its intricacies of shifting scenes and demanding production requirements like the climactic 'Ride to the Abyss'.
		Paul Groves is a competent if not very inspiring Faust and Kasarova could have been a more innocent and vulnerable Marguerite although her timbre and phrasing are most pleasing and her big numbers: 'The King of Thule' and the 'Romance' where she mourns Faust's inconstancy are a delight.
		Faust enters (as does the chorus), dressed in an all-white track suit and twee hat, carrying 'his psychic substance' on his back in the shape of a flask that resembles a milk churn.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2000/aug00/damnation.htm (463 words)

	classical music - andante - the remarkable robert lepage stages la damnation de faust
		As if to symbolize Faust's complete immersion in the world of Mephistopheles, Lepage put the two of them in a row boat which the devil turned on its side, dumping Faust into the water (with all sorts of artificially generated allusions to liquid) as a sort of anti-baptism into a hedonistic world.
		The consummation of Faust's seduction of Marguerite was symbolized by a series of humans appearing to float languidly in tanks of water.
		None of this could have been accomplished with conventional dancers alone; there were nine aerialists as well, and often their participation in a narrative-driven stage effect took the place of the conventional choreography that can so easily abort the piece's overall momentum.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=24036 (855 words)

	Links related to the Faust theme
		Pacts with the Devil: Faust and Precursors", 1996.
		Faust Legends translated from German to English by D. Ashliman.
		Faust and Mephistopheles as rod puppets in the Canadian Museum of Civilization
	www.ucalgary.ca /~esleben/faust/faustlinks.html (388 words)

	Faust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Faust (Latin Faustus) is the protagonist of a popular German tale of a pact with the Devil, assumed to be based on the figure of the German magician and alchemist Dr. Johann Georg Faust (approximately 1480–1540).
		Faust deserves to go to heaven, because of his unquenchable thirst for knowledge and understanding ("man must strive and err") that exceeds the limits set for human beings.
		The Faust tale is a variation of the story about a negotiated pact between man and the devil, involving human hubris and diabolic cunning; the oldest extant version is the tale of Theophilus of Adana.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Faust (3264 words)

	Faust Legends
		Johann Faustus was born in Roda in the province of Weimar, of God-fearing parents.
		Another time Faust left Boxberg Castle at a quarter past eleven in order to be at a banquet in Heilbronn at the last strike of twelve o'clock.
		To show his thanks, Faust sent a devil to the man's bedroom to frighten him as he was going to bed.
	www.pitt.edu /~dash/faust.html (2775 words)

	DAMNATION OF FAUST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In Evocation, the prologue to the series Damnation of Faust, the underlying tension is derived from a longing for innocence and renewal evoked through the awakening of lost childhood and a desire to transcend the toil and strife of everyday experience.
		The second part of the series Damnation of Faust, Will-o-the-Wisp centers around the development of Marguerite, the female character from the Faust legend.
		A continuation of the Damnation of Faust series, Charming Landscape opens with scenes of a New York City playground and then documents its demolition, as two teenage girls recollect their past in relation to this site.
	www.thekitchen.org /MovieCatalog/Titles/DamnationOfFaust.html (309 words)

	Amazon.ca: La Damnation De Faust Comp: Music: Hector Berlioz,Myung-Whun Chung,Victor von Halem,Keith Lewis,Anne-Sofie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Damnation de Faust, La, for mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass, chorus and orchestra, ("légende dramatique") H. 111 (Op.
		In Le Damnation of Faust, you have it all!
		Keith Lewis (Faust) is, alas, not up to the part.
	www.amazon.ca /Damnation-Faust-Comp-Hector-Berlioz/dp/B000009ON4 (958 words)

	Review - DVD: Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust - Staatskapelle, Berlin
		However, his "Dramatic Legend" the Damnation of Faust is an opera in all but name, and, though the composer did not intend the work to be staged, perhaps due to the demanding nature of the scenario, many modern directors have leapt at the chance to bring the work to life.
		The wild Romantic in Berlioz could not resist consigning Faust to Hell, accompanying with a wild orchestral ride, and a chorus of demons to greet him.
		It is a valid Jungian take on the Faust legend, but the choices made are visually out of synch with the music.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-october04/ev/ev-berlioz.html (796 words)

	The Faust Tradition: Links of Interest
		Friedrich Maximilian Klinger: Fausts Leben, Thaten und Höllenfahrt (1791)
		Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I (1808) and Faust II (1832)
		Friedrich Theodor Vischer: Faust - der Tragödie dritter Teil (1862)
	www.csuchico.edu /~goulding/faust/faustlinks.htm (112 words)

	NTW Damnation of Faust: Charming Landscape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Broadcast as a segment of Episode 313 of the 1987 season of "New Television." "Charming Landscape" was also shown with the entire "Damnation of Faust" trilogy, as part of Episode 106 of the 1991 season of "New Television." The work received some support from the Raindance Foundation.
		"Charming Landscape," the conclusion to Dara Birnbaum's "Damnation of Faust" trilogy, shows the debris of a demolished city playground.
		Damnation of Faust : Will-O'-the-Wisp (A Deceitful Goal)
	main.wgbh.org /wgbh/NTW/FA/TITLES/Damnation109.HTML (216 words)

	Sabbatini Damnation of Faust, London, October 2000
		Damnation of Faust (Concert Performance) London, October 2000
		The Damnation of Faust, one of the composer's greatest, if most
		In her love scenes with Giuseppe Sabbatini's Faust, there is, however, a
	www.jcarreras.homestead.com /SabbatiniRevFaustLondon00.html (366 words)

	La damnation de Faust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is notable mainly for the Faust of Gedda and the Marguerite of Janet Baker.
		Stuart Burrows is a solidly musical and sensitive Faust, but his slow vibrato gets in the way of my enjoyment.
		I don't like the performance-practice-of-the-90's style Damnations from Gardiner and Nagano, and neither performance is graced by singers of the calibre of Richard Verreau (Markevitch), Nicolai Gedda (Prêtre), Plácido Domingo (Barenboim), Suzanne Danco (Munch), Josephine Veasey (Davis), or Stuart Burrows (Ozawa).
	home.earthlink.net /~oy/damnatio.htm (658 words)

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