Faust II (rock opera)

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Musical dates
Original title: Faust II - The rock opera
Original language: German
Music: Rudolf Volz
Book: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Premiere: October 17, 2003
Place of premiere: State Theater Marburg
Playing time: 2:55 hours incl. A 30-min. Break
Place and time of the action: Flower meadow, imperial hall, laboratory, sea, castle courtyard, high mountains, palace, burial place, sky
Roles / people
  • Heinrich Faust
  • Mephistopheles (Mephisto)
  • Ariel (elf)
  • Emperor
  • astrologer
  • bishop
  • general
  • Wagner (Famulus)
  • Homunculus
  • Philemon
  • Baucis
  • Gretchen
  • Goethe (theater director, narrator)
  • Ensemble (devils, angels etc.)

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

The world premiere took place on October 17, 2003 in the Landestheater Marburg. The first CD was released a few months later.

This stage work is a consistent and stylistic continuation of Faust I - The Rock Opera . In this respect, the two rock operas can be viewed as one continuous piece with four halves.

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. The rock opera is so far the only implementation of the literary work in opera form.

Song title

Third half of the game

  1. Sleep is shell (scene: first act , graceful area , from line no. 4623)
  2. Is it love (from line no. 4679)
  3. A new fool (scene: Imperial Palatinate , from line 4743)
  4. There is not enough money (from line 4923)
  5. We let it go (scene: spacious hall with side rooms , from line no. 5217)
  6. Drink (from line no. 5263)
  7. The emperor is on fire (from line no. 5946)
  8. Invoice (scene: Lustgarten , from line no. 6041)
  9. Amusing (scene: Finstere Galerie , from line no. 6111)
  10. Mixing (scene: second act , laboratory , from line no. 6838)
  11. Press me (from line no. 6879)
  12. Nature (scene: At the upper Peneios , from line no. 7830)
  13. Marry yourself to the ocean (scene: rocky bays of the Aegean Sea , from line no. 8319, 8458)

Fourth half of the game

  1. The fame of beauty (scene: third act , in front of the palace of Menelas in Sparta , from line no. 8488)
  2. Reputation and Fate (from line no.8524)
  3. Ugliness (from line no. 8711)
  4. Here kneel down (scene: Innerer Burghof , from line no. 9192)
  5. Let me die (from line 9218)
  6. Our luck (from line no. 9356)
  7. Delicious three (scene: the scene is changing , from line no. 9695)
  8. The new emperor (scene: fourth act , high mountains , from line number 10243)
  9. Gegenkaiser (scene: on the foothills , from line no. 10375)
  10. Battle (from line no. 10640)
  11. Piracy (scene: fifth act , palace , from line no. 11173)
  12. A miracle (scene: open area , from line no. 11111), (since 2009)
  13. Running through the world (scene: midnight , from line no. 11471)
  14. For the moment (scene: Great forecourt of the palace , from line no. 11574)
  15. Agony (Scene: burial , from Line No. 11,699th)
  16. Redemption (scene: mountain gorges , from line no.11934)
  17. He comes back (from line no. 12073)
  18. Parable (from line 12104)

Discography

  • Faust II - The Rock Opera (Double CD, 2004)
  • Faust - Die Rockoper (4-CD box Faust I + II, 2006)

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 Boydell Press, 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Merk: Faust II Hessian State Theater. In: magazine musicals. Retrieved December 1, 2003 .
  2. ↑ a b Bernd Mahl: Faust. The rock opera. Performance report. In: Faust Yearbook 2004. Retrieved July 1, 2004 .
  3. ↑ a b c Bernd Mahl: Goethe's Faust in a musical. In: Faust Yearbook (p. 210) 2010–2013. Retrieved October 1, 2013 .