Speaking of what Faust is, “ I have,” says Goethe, “ received into my mind impressions, and those of a sensual, animated, charming, varied, hundred-fold kind, just as a lively imagination presented ...

HAMBURG, Germany — One reason Schumann’s “Scenes From Goethe’s ‘Faust'” is so rarely performed is its hybrid shape: part literary oratorio, part opera. Another handicap is his selections. While other ...

This is a hugely detailed dissertation on the life and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe with a focus on his historically acclaimed re-penning and rendering of Faust; a tragedy in two parts. McGarry ...

As we reach the end of the tragedy of the First Part of Faust and look back, we seem to have come, with Mephistopheles, upon that midway height where we can see only with astonishment “ how Mammon in ...

The nineteen-twenties were a time of unrestrained cinematic audacity. The very idea of making movies on a grand scale with grand ambitions was new, and a new generation of directors rose to the ...

AGENERAL eagerness to wring some usable wisdom from Goethe, preferably in condensed form, on the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth has pushed the great man from the company of the poets into the ...