Among his best known works are the feature films Alice ( 1988 ), Faust ( 1994 ), Conspirators of Pleasure ( 1996 ), Little Otik ( 2000 ) and Lunacy ( 2005 ), a surreal comic horror based on two works of Edgar Allan Poe and the life of Marquis de Sade.

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, one of the world's most celebrated realists, wrote Faust ( 1856 ), Phantoms ( 1864 ), Song of the Triumphant Love ( 1881 ) and Clara Milich ( 1883 ).

* Helen appears in various versions of the Faust myth, such as Marlowe's play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus-of which Faustus ' summoning Helen and courting her is one of the most well-known scenes, and which contributed the line " Was this the face that launched a thousand ships ...?

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend ; a highly successful scholar, but also one dissatisfied with his life, who therefore makes a deal with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.

Some sources also connect the legendary Faust with Johann Fust ( c. 1400 – 1466 ), Johann Gutenberg's business partner, or suggest that Fust is one of the multiple origins to the Faust story.

The notes to one edition of Goethe's Faust assert that the alchemists Agrippa and Paracelsus were combined into the protagonist.

Part one of the story ends in tragedy for Faust, as Gretchen is saved but Faust is left to grieve in shame.

Mefistofele is one of many pieces of classical music based on the Faust legend, and like many other composers, Boito used Goethe's version as his starting point.

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.

Others include Cutangle in Equal Rites, Virrid Wayzygoose for one night in Sourcery, Ezrolith Churn during < s > Faust </ s > Eric, Sloman, who discovered the Special Theory of Slood, and Preserved Bigger, whose conditional bequest necessitated a game of football in Unseen Academicals.

Further performances in New York included four appearances as Valentine ( a role she also performed on tour in Louisville, Albany, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and Boston ), three as Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni, three as Eva in Wagner's Die Meistersinger, one more as Gilda, one as Desdemona, one as Elsa, as well as a single appearance as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust.

A scene in Goethe's Faust Part One is called " Walpurgisnacht ", and one in Faust Part Two is called " Classical Walpurgisnacht ".

Faust became one of the premier bands in the international appreciation of the genre that would eventually be known as krautrock.

Faust became one of the first acts to sign to Richard Branson's Virgin Records, who embarked on a marketing campaign somewhat daring for its time, aimed at introducing Faust to British record-buyers.

All of these disapproved of the negative depiction of Faust as a renegade and accused the work of being " a slap in the face of German national feeling " and of having " formalistically deformed one of the greatest works of our German poet Goethe " ( Ulbricht ).

For instance, while one of the main groups originally tagged as krautrock, Faust, recorded a seminal 12-minute track they titled " Krautrock ", they would later distance themselves from the term, saying: " When the English people started talking about Krautrock, we thought they were just taking the piss ... and when you hear the so-called ' Krautrock renaissance ,' it makes me think everything we did was for nothing.

The Legendary Pink Dots claim heavy influence from krautrock — naming in particular Can, Faust and Neu !— with one of their few cover songs being Neu!

But no description known to me brings to us the essential point of that conversion so distinctly and so free from everything extraneous as the one mentioned in Faust ( The World as Will and Representation, Vol.

Although she is apparently one of the leading opera singers of her generation, the only thing that Castafiore is ever heard to sing are a few lines of her " signature aria ", the Jewel Song, l ' air des bijoux, from Faust, always at ear-splitting volume ( and violent force-certainly enough to part the Captain's hair, and a breeze enough to blow back a curtain in an opera box-' She's in fine voice tonight.

Though la Castafiore is obviously Italian, her pet aria is from a French opera ( Faust was composed by Charles Gounod ) rather than the Verdi, Puccini, or Donizetti one might expect from a star of La Scala.

In the second half of the 19th century, Jacques Offenbach created operetta with witty and cynical works such as Orphée aux enfers, as well as the opera Les Contes d ' Hoffmann ; Charles Gounod scored a massive success with Faust ; and Bizet composed Carmen, which, once audiences learned to accept its blend of Romanticism and realism, became the most popular of all opéra comiques.

Hervé's most famous works are the Gounod-parody Le Petit Faust ( 1869 ) and Mam ' zelle Nitouche ( 1883 ).

The most popular earlier work based on the legend was Gounod's opera Faust, which Boito regarded as a superficial and frivolous treatment of a profound subject.

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 ).

The most famous of these is in the story of Faust.

His most ambitious project of the period was the opera Johannes Faustus on the Faust theme.

Faust, and this aria in particular, was among the most famous of all operas in Hergé's time.

One of Ganz's most physically demanding stage portrayals was the title character in Peter Stein ’ s 2000 production of Goethe's Faust ( Parts I and II ), as he suffered injuries during rehearsals and his assumption of the role was delayed.

Faust has also worked on other cartoons, most notably as a storyboard artist on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Kids Next Door and The Powerpuff Girls.

He never lived to finish his most significant opera Doktor Faust ( 1925 ).

Faust is Goethe's most famous work and considered by many to be one of the greatest works of German literature.

As a humorous side note, a judge described this show as " touching my very soul " and then proceeded to announce " I need a cigarette, and I don't even smoke " thus proving the 2006 " Faust " production to be one of Phantom Regiment's most emotional productions yet.

Ewers was one of the first critics to recognize cinema as a legitimate art form, and wrote the scripts for numerous early examples of the medium, most notably The Student of Prague ( 1913 ), a reworking of the Faust legend which also included the first portrayal of a double role by an actor on the screen.

According to a press release, Winter Women is " intended to be a summer record, full of memorable, catchy, and un-ironic pop songs ," while Holy Ghost Language School is like " Faust, the Residents, or the most ' out ' moments of Brian Eno's solo records.

Faust, Part 1 and Faust, Part 2 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, among the most acclaimed pieces in the history of German literature, were written as closet dramas.

The " Gretchen "- plot, although now the most widely known episode of the Faust legend, was of Goethe's own invention.

Manfred shows heavy influence by Goethe's Faust, which Byron most likely read in translation ( although he claimed to have never read it ); still, it is by no means a simple copy.

Murnau's Faust was the most complex and expensive production undertaken by UFA, until it was surpassed by Metropolis the following year.

The title of the novel connects it of course with the most famous work, Faust I and Faust II, of the German poet Goethe, generally considered the absolute, unsurpassable climax of all German literature and the most deep and most true exploration and depiction of the German character.

Christopher C. Faust ( born 1955 in Fort Riley, Kansas ) is a prolific landscape photographer in St. Paul, Minnesota.

( Faust was performed in Italian, as were all of the operas staged during the first season, including those written in French and German.

" Many of his former students later played with orchestras all over Europe or became music professors themselves ; Roswitha Staege became professor of flute at the Berlin Arts Academy ; Wolfgang Ritter became solo flautist with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra ; Maren Distel became a celebrated flautist as well ; Michael Faust became solo flautist with the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester in 1988 and professor at the Musik Hochschule in Düsseldorf.

The great Goethe has given us a distinct and visible description of this denial of the will, brought about by great misfortune and by the despair of all deliverance, in his immortal masterpiece Faust, in the story of the sufferings of Gretchen.

In July 2011 Gheorghiu sang the title role in Tosca at the Royal Opera House conducted by Antonio Pappano, and the following September returned there for the revival of Faust, which was broadcast live in cinemas all over the world.

Only days later she cancelled all her performances in the scheduled new production of Faust during the Met's 2011 / 2012 season.

" He was so impressed that a suite entitled " Eight Scenes from Faust " became his Opus 1 ( 1829 ), though he later recalled all the copies of it he could find.

James E. Faust, in an LDS General Conference, also expounded this LDS Church doctrine, when he said that, " The First Vision confirms the fact there are three separate Gods: God the Father-Elohim, to whom we address our prayers ; Jesus the Christ-Jehovah ; and the Holy Ghost-the Comforter, through whose spirit we may know the truth of all things.

The show's focal antagonists and their endeavors are fronted by Gailhart von Faust, the megalomaniac dictator of Gartlant who campaigns to conquer his neighboring sovereigns in order to control all of Terra II.

von Goethe's Faust, which given his young age and the complexity of the text is regarded as a remarkable feat, all the more so considering the praise it received from the German author himself.

However, Faust warns Adam to use his powers only when absolutely necessary, lest Adam drain all of Isis ' remaining power and make her resurrection impossible.

Faust swiftly murders the Enchantress, losing his soul, restarting the fires and saving the Earth all at once.

Emperor drummer Bård ' Faust ' Eithun believes that Dead's suicide " marked the point at which, under Euronymous's direction, the black metal scene began its obsession with all things satanic and evil ".

This song was inspired by a night of guilt and nostalgia ( in fact I felt a little at sixes and sevens musing over all the events of the last six or seven years ) and attributing our success to devilish intervention, as in the infamous Goethe story where Faust sells his soul to the Devil in return for a life of riches and splendour.

Greek tragedy and Racine's plays are written in verse, as is almost all of Shakespeare's drama, Ben Jonson, Fletcher and others like Goethe's Faust.

However, the ordeal of her death, and many months spent as a brainwashed slave, routinely abused by Faust, left her much colder and ruthless than before, making her even less merciful than her husband, and prepared to wipe out all life on Earth.

Phorkyas, now Faust and Helen's attendant, explains to the newly-woken chorus that during the past interval Faust and Helen have had a spirited son named Euphorion, who charms all with his beauty and gift for music.

William C. " Jack " Davis, Emory M. Thomas, and Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust have all done research there.

The idea was inspired partly by an entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica on Beethoven that referred to him as the most creative genius of all time, partly by traditional views of what constitutes the human heaven ( visions of lights ), and finally by the Faust story.

Hades, however, betrays Faust and ages him on the spot to a withered old man, claiming that, " Ultimately, pain and suffering are all mankind will ever know ".