Project Gutenberg 2014-05-28 Public domain in the USA. 405 Gounod, Charles 1818 1893 Gounod, Charles François Gounod, Charles Francois Barbier, Jules 1825 1901 Barbier, J. (Jules) Barbier, Paul Jules Barbier, P.-J. (Paul Jules) Barbier, Giulio Carré, Michel 1819 1872 Carre, Michel Carré, M. (Michel) Carré, Michael Carré, Michele Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749 1832 Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, J. W. (Johann Wolfgang) Goethe, Juan Wolfgango Faust: A Lyric Drama in Five Acts Produced by Colin Bell, Paul Marshall, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Faust: A Lyric Drama in Five Acts" by Gounod, Barbier, and Carré is an opera liberetto written in the mid-19th century. The story is based on Goethe's legendary tale about Faust, a disillusioned scholar who makes a pact with the devil, Mephistopheles, in hopes of regaining his lost youth and experiencing life anew. Central to this drama is Faust's obsession with love, leading him to Marguerite, whose tragic fate unfurls as Faust’s desires consume him and her. At the start of the opera, we find Faust alone in his study, filled with despair over life's meaninglessness. Attempting to end his existence, he is interrupted by the joyous songs of maidens and laborers, igniting a tumult of emotions within him. Cursing humanity, he calls upon the devil for assistance, leading to the entrance of Mephistopheles, who offers him youth and pleasure in exchange for his soul. Fascinated by a vision of Marguerite, Faust eagerly enters into the pact, setting the stage for a cascade of tragic events that will unfold throughout the acts. This opening portion establishes the motifs of despair, longing, and the seductive allure of temptation that drive the narrative forward. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/45806/45806-h/images/cover_image.jpg en Operas -- Librettos Faust, -approximately 1540 -- Drama ML Text Opera FR Musique Browsing: Music Browsing: Performing Arts/Film 272625 272633 2024-09-19T08:11:24.024022 2023-09-20T04:36:53.071052 text/html text/html 276178 2014-05-28T16:37:36 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 853818 2014-05-28T16:37:38 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 887328 2024-09-19T08:11:33.029487 application/epub+zip 889831 2024-09-19T08:11:25.420006 application/epub+zip 122850 2024-09-19T08:11:24.763011 application/epub+zip 1006929 2024-09-19T08:11:37.107442 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1097540 2024-09-19T08:11:32.298471 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 332108 2022-09-20T20:29:08.534204 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 156620 156499 2024-09-19T08:11:22.163009 2023-09-20T04:36:51.362021 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 155551 2014-05-28T16:37:36 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 52034 2014-05-28T16:37:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 155548 2014-05-28T16:37:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 51598 2014-05-28T16:37:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 24560 2024-09-19T08:11:37.281433 application/rdf+xml 31926 2024-09-19T08:11:24.889017 image/jpeg 4543 2024-09-19T08:11:24.826996 image/jpeg 871282 2024-09-19T08:11:24.095021 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia de.wikipedia en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia