Faust (rock opera)

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Musical dates
Original title: Faust - the rock opera
Original language: German
Music: Rudolf Volz
Book: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Premiere: September 27, 1997
Place of premiere: Kornhaus, Ulm
Playing time: 2:50 hours incl. A 30-min. Break
Place and time of the action: Heaven, study, Auerbach's cellar , witch's kitchen, Gretchen's room, Marthens garden, Brocken , dungeon
Roles / people
  • Heinrich Faust
  • Mephistopheles (Mephisto)
  • Gretchen
  • Gretchen's mother
  • Marthe Schwerdtlein (neighbor)
  • Earth spirit
  • Wagner (Famulus)
  • Goethe (theater director, narrator)
  • Dominatrix
  • Ensemble (devils, monks etc.)

Faust I - Die Rockoper is a rock opera by Rudolf Volz based on Faust (The Tragedy First Part) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . The libretto, music and staging were created by Volz. Co-composers and arrangers are Michael Wagner, Uwe Rodi, Matthias Kohl and Uwe Rublack.

The world premiere took place on September 27, 1997 in Ulm. At the same time the first CD was released. There is a consequent continuation of this stage work Faust II - The Rock Opera .

This work should not be confused with the 2020 production Faust 'n' Roll, Rocktheater after Goethe.

stylistics

Only original texts by Goethe are used. The only stylistic devices are repetition and deletion of original texts. This rock opera is not just a concept album , but has a theatrical implementation in the form of a rock spectacle , a combination of classic German literature with rock music in the style of the 1970s.

Song title

First half of the game

  1. More animal than any animal (scene: Prologue in Heaven , from line no. 271)
  2. Bet (from line no. 293)
  3. Devoted to magic (scene: night , from line no. 354)
  4. Moonshine (from line 398)
  5. Earth spirit (from line no. 482)
  6. I hate life (from line 703, 1570)
  7. Ghost song (from line no. 1447)
  8. The core of the matter (from line 1247), (since 2014)
  9. Easter walk (scene: in front of the gate , from line 903), (since 2010)
  10. Evil (scene: study , from line no. 1327)
  11. All theory is gray (from line no. 1928), (since 1999)
  12. You always stay (from line no. 1542, 1730, 1806)
  13. The wooden table (scene: Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig , from line number 2260), (since 2009)
  14. Witches multiplication table (scene: witch's kitchen , from line no. 2540)
  15. Science (from line no. 2567)

Second half of the game

  1. King in Thule (Scene: Evening: A small, clean room , from line no. 2759)
  2. Everything depends on gold (from line no. 2783)
  3. No devil would be (scene: walk , from line no. 2805)
  4. Her husband is dead (scene: the neighbor's house , from line no. 2914)
  5. He loves me (scene: garden , from line 3179)
  6. My rest is gone (scene: Gretchen's room , from line 3374)
  7. Secret horror (scene: Marthens Garten , from line no. 3471)
  8. Painful (scene: Zwinger , from line no. 3602)
  9. Evil spirit (scene: cathedral , from line no. 3776)
  10. Zum Brocken (scene: Walpurgis Night , from line no. 3658)
  11. Hexenelement (from line no. 4016, 4035)
  12. Walpurgis Night (from line no. 4128)
  13. Phantom picture of Grete (from line no. 4183)
  14. Free them (scene: Dull day. Field , from line no. 4399)
  15. I killed my mother (scene: dungeon , from line no. 4427, 4544)

Discography

CDs

  • Faust - The Rock Opera (1997)
  • Faust - Die Rockoper (4-CD box Faust I + II, 2007)

DVD

  • Faust - Die Rockoper (studio adaptation of Faust I, 2007)

literature

  • Paul M. Malone: Faust as Rock Opera. In: Osman Durrani (Ed.): Icons of Modern Culture Series. Helm Information Ltd., 2004.
  • Bernd Mahl: Faust. The rock opera. Rudolf Volz sets both parts in tones for the first time - without changing the text. Performance report. In: Faust Yearbook 2004. Published on behalf of the International Faust Society in Knittlingen, 2004.
  • Paul M. Malone: They Sold Their Soul for Rock'n'Roll. Faustian Rock Musicals In: Lorna Fitzsimmons (Ed.): International Faust Studies. Adaption, Reception, Translation (Continuum Reception Studies), ed.Bloomsbury Academic UK, 2008.
  • Paul M. Malone: The Faust Theme in Rock Opera In: Lorna Fitzsimmons (Ed.): Lives of Faust: The Faust Theme in Literature and Music, De Gruyter, 2011.
  • Bernd Mahl: Devilishly good: Goethe's Faust in a musical. In: Faust yearbook 2010–2013. Published on behalf of the International Faust Society in Knittlingen, 2013.
  • Waltraud Maierhofer: Devilishly good: Rudolf Volz's Rock Opera Faust and Event Culture. In: Lorraine Byrne Bodley (Ed.): Music in Goethe's Faust, Goethe's Faust in Music. The Bodydell Press, 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roland Mayer: Faust with the cell phone. In: Neu-Ulmer Zeitung. Retrieved September 29, 1997 .
  2. ^ Gabriela Reuss: When Goethe is set to music in a modern way. In: Südkurier. Retrieved November 5, 1998 .
  3. ↑ a b Bernd Mahl: Faust. The rock opera. Performance report. In: Faust Yearbook 2004. Retrieved July 1, 2004 .
  4. ↑ a b Bernd Mahl: Goethe's Faust in a musical. In: Faust Yearbook (p. 210) 2010–2013. Retrieved October 1, 2013 .