Faust (Spohr)

Faust
Opera by Louis Spohr
Faust at the Royal Italian Opera, from The Illustrated London News Supplement, 31 July 1852
LibrettistJoseph Karl Bernard
LanguageGerman
Based onlegend of Faust
Premiere
1 September 1816 (1816-09-01)
Estates Theatre in Prague

Faust is an opera by the German composer Louis Spohr. The libretto, by Joseph Karl Bernard, is based on the legend of Faust; it is not influenced by Goethe's Faust, though Faust, Part One had been published in 1808. Instead, Bernard's libretto draws mainly on Faust plays and poems by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger and Heinrich von Kleist.[1] Spohr's Faust is an important work in the history of German Romantic opera.

  1. ^ "Bernard's libretto draws mainly on Faust plays and poems by Maximilian Klinger and Heinrich von Kleist." in Opera News, October 1995 (review of Bielefeld Philharmonic [de] recording of the two versions).