Opera in the Repertoire · Classical
Faust
Music by Louis Spohr · libretto by Joseph Carl Bernard · premiered 1816 · at Provisional Theatre
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. Spohr's Faust is an important work in the history of German Romantic opera.
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About the Composer
Louis Spohr is the composer of record for this opera.
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Other Operas by Louis Spohr
- Jessonda (1822)