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He worked as a waiter at Tony Faust, a famous restaurant on Fifth Street, which was frequented by members of the St. Louis Philosophical Society, including Thomas Davidson, the German Henry C. Brockmeyer, a nephew of Otto Von Bismarck ; and William Torrey Harris.
Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).
Henry Abbey served as manager for the inaugural season 1883-1884 which opened with a performance of Charles Gounod's Faust on October 22, 1883 starring the brilliant Swedish soprano Christina Nilsson.
In 1887 the Irish dramatist William Gorman Wills loosely adapted the first part of Faust for a production starring Henry Irving as Mephistopheles at the Lyceum Theatre, London.
Their sound is a heavy in the old psychedelic sense, basically being a tribute to Germany's Guru Guru, Jimi Hendrix and the avant-garde groups known as ' Rock in Opposition ': Henry Cow ( England ), Etron Fou Lelublan ( France ), Faust ( Germany ), and others.
From 1862 to 1867, the theatre was managed by James Henry Mapleson, presenting Italian, French and German opera, including the British premières of La forza del destino, Médée, Faust and The Merry Wives of Windsor, and promoting such singers as Mario, Giulia Grisi, De Murska, Thérèse Tietjens, Antonio Giuglini, Charles Santley and Christine Nilsson.
He was conductor of the Civil Service Vocal Union from 1881, and also trained the choir for Henry Irving ’ s original production of Faust at the Lyceum Theatre in 1887.
The idea to collaborate with Henry Cow eventually materialised in November 1974 when Slapp Happy asked them to provide instrumental backing, much as Faust had done on the first two albums.
In this retelling, God and the Devil fight for the soul of Henry Faust, a student at the University of Notre Dame.
* Henry Faust: Don Henley
Other celebrated productions included Much Ado About Nothing, The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the immensely popular Faust by William Gorman Wills ( 1885, which even drew applications for reserved seats from foreigners ), Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan ), Henry VII ( 1892 ), Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan ( 1895 ), Cymbeline ( 1896 ) and Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ).
Team members included Dr. Fred Burkhardt ( coach ), Philip Dischinger, Henry J. Faust, Alfred A. Heerdt ( captain ), Edward Linneborn, John I. Maier, Albert W. Manweiler, Edward C. Miller, Harry J. Miller, Charles P. Monahan, George L. Redlein, Edmund Reimann, Williams C. Rhode and George Schell.

Faust and had
Rossini, who had been considering the subject of Faust for a new opera, did return, however, to Paris in November of that year.
This company had staged the first performances of Gounod's Faust and his Roméo et Juliette, and of a shortened version of Berlioz's Les Troyens.
According to the theologian Philip Melanchthon, the historical Johann Faust had studied in Kraków, as well.
In 1930, when presenting his final masterwork ( The Lamentation of Dr Faust ), he confesses the pact he had made: madness and syphilis now overcome him, and he suffers a slow and total collapse until his death in 1940.
starting in < strike > Faust </ strike > Eric ) The Bursar is a quiet, reserved person, who took the job of University treasurer because he had an affinity for numbers ( the Archchancellor describes him as " one of those idiot servants ") and there was less competition for the role than other faculty posts.
The following year, Camembert Electrique was given a belated UK release, priced at 59p which was the price of a typical single, a promotional gimmick Virgin had done before in 1973 on an album by Faust, and would do again for a reggae compilation in 1976.
Gunsbourg remained for sixty years overseeing such premiere productions as Berlioz's La damnation de Faust in 1893 and the first appearances in January 1894 of the heroic Italian tenor, Francesco Tamagno in Verdi's Otello, the title role of which he had created for the opera's premiere in Italy.
The opera chosen was Faust, which he had conducted at his debut at the house in 1917.
Newman's Faust project had been many years in the making, and it suffered for it ; a central joke was Newman's depiction of Faust as a shallow heavy metal music fan in thrall to Satan, and this had to be modified to accommodate the less-than-devil obsessed age of grunge rock that was in fashion by 1995.
It has been suggested that he also wrote the ballet music for Gounod's " Faust " which had been inserted ten years after the original performance of the opera.
He had already, in his Goethes Faust in seiner Einheit und Ganzheit ( 1836 ) and Goethe als Dramatiker ( 1837 ), advocated a new critical method in interpreting the German classics, which he wished to see treated like the ancient classics.
Faust broke up in 1975 after Virgin had rejected their fifth album ( some of the recordings later appeared on the " Munich and Elsewhere " album ), but reissues of their recordings and various additional material through Chris Cutler's Recommended Records maintained a level of interest.
The Faust Tapes had a visually disturbing op art cover design by Bridget Riley, while that for Faust IV consisted of a series of blank music staves.
Slapp Happy's Peter Blegvad had played with Faust in Wümme and subsequently toured with them in the UK.
Spohr later worked as conductor at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna ( 1813 – 1815 ), where he continued to be on friendly terms with Beethoven ; subsequently he was opera director at Frankfurt ( 1817 – 1819 ) where he was able to stage his own operas — the first of which, Faust, had been rejected in Vienna.
Jean-Hervé Peron of Faust says: " We were trying to put aside everything we had heard in rock ' n ' roll, the three-chord pattern, the lyrics.
After further study in Central City ( where he was in the chorus of Don Giovanni in 1963, with Norman Treigle in the title role ) and as an apprentice with the Santa Fe Opera, he went to New York where he worked for an academic publisher before he had his first breakthrough at the New York City Opera, debuting on March 11, 1973 singing the role of Zuniga in the 1875 Bizet opera Carmen, after which, among other roles, he took over the Faustian devils in Gounod's Faust and Boito's Mefistofele left empty by the early death of Treigle.
His Collected Poems were edited ( 1902 ) by his sister, Victoria Buxton, with a notice by John Addington Symonds, which had originally appeared in the Academy ( January 19, 1899 ) as a review of The Modern Faust.
By 1954, the New Theatre, Cardiff had become the company's base and it staged a short season between 1 – 13 November, with performances of Les vêpres siciliennes, Rigoletto, Nabucco, Verdi's Requiem, The Bartered Bride, Faust, Die Fledermaus and the premiere performance of Menna by Welsh composer Arwel Hughes.
While Otaru and the marionettes were preoccupied with Faust, Doctor Hess and a member of the Xian government had used the opportunity to scan Lorelei's brain for information, although they escape without revealing their true purpose.

Faust and already
In Faust II, the legend of Johann Faust ( at least in a version of the 18th century, which came to Goethe's attention ) already contained Faust's marriage with Helen and an encounter with an Emperor.
Faust was Murnau's last German movie, and directly afterward he moved to the US under contract to William Fox to direct Sunrise ( 1927 ); when the film premiered in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo of Berlin, Murnau was already shooting in Hollywood.
One year after Infinite Crisis, with Neron having already escaped, Faust escapes from the Tower of Fate with the help of Black Adam through the aid of a revived Isis, and contacted Red Tornado's soul which was still adrift after fighting Alexander Luthor alongside Donna Troy, the Green Lantern Corps, and their allies.

Faust and signed
Soon afterwards, a record contract was signed, Samoth moved to rhythm guitar, Ihsahn continued the vocal duties and lead guitars, and Faust was recruited as a drummer.
Her debut at the Paris Grand Opera was in 1897 in Faust and she was signed on for six years as a result.
The letter is signed ' Faust ', the notorious mastermind of Crime Ghost.

Faust and up
The Brocken has always played a role in legends and has been connected with witches and devils ; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe took up the legends in his play Faust.
Sheet music from Faust up to Date
Starting in the 1970s, Sox fans were further entertained by organist Nancy Faust who picked up on, and reinforced, the spontaneous chants of fans who were singing tunes like, " We will, we will, SOX YOU!
Faust blames Black Adam for using Isis ' power too much, and distraught, Black Adam flies away, ending up in Gotham City.
After the team breaks up, Faust tries to pursue a solo career.
Faust teams up with a varied group of superheroes, including Atom, Superman, Firestorm and Enchantress.
: It is by his translation of Faust, one of the finest attempts of the kind in any literature, that Taylor is generally known ; yet as an original poet he stands well up in the second rank of Americans.
All stood up to be counted and proved they were equal to the task, with Ray Cashmere in particular winning a legion of fans with his spirited play at the back end of the season while Sam Faust proved he is a player of the future.
After 16 years, he begins to regret his pact and wants to withdraw, but the devil persuades him to renew it, conjuring up Helen of Troy, with whom Faust sires a son called Justus.
Edwin Faust of Stylus Magazine considers Powerage " AC / DC ’ s best album, (...) because it isn ’ t simply about sex, drinking and tongue-in-cheek Satanism ", but shows a band " growing up ".
Their Gaiety Theatre musical burlesques included Faust up to date ( 1888 ), which remained a hit for several years and coined a new meaning for the phrase " up-to-date ", meaning " abreast " of the latest styles and facts.
The girl has a child ( by Faust ) and ends up in the streets.
Before he was twenty he printed for private circulation a volume of poems, which he followed up after a short interval by the publication of a translation of Goethe's Faust, one of the earliest that appeared in England, with some translations of German lyrics and a few original poems.
She backed up Izsak when they first met Rail and she is what put him into Faust.
He seems to be a somber loner, but as he begans to meet up with Faust, he takes a liking and seems to attach.

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