{"id":21833,"date":"2018-08-28T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T04:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/operawire.wpengine.com\/?p=21833"},"modified":"2018-08-08T10:30:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:30:58","slug":"operas-based-on-the-works-of-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/operawire.com\/operas-based-on-the-works-of-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe\/","title":{"rendered":"Operas Based on the Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born on August 28, 1749, is one of the great German writers in history.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, his literary prowess has inspired a wide range of operatic works, many of which are staples of the canon. Here is a survey of operas based on the works of Goethe.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Faust<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Goethe\u2019s masterwork is undeniably the source of many operas. The three most renowned of these works, by far, are Gounod\u2019s \u201cFaust,\u201d Boito\u2019s \u201cMefistofele,\u201d and Berlioz\u2019s \u201cLa Damnation de Faust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of the three, only Boito\u2019s really takes stock of the two parts of Goethe\u2019s parts. Gounod\u2019s hues closely to the first part of Goethe\u2019s \u201cFaust,\u201d while Berlioz\u2019s take is a loose adaptation of Part one.<\/p>\n<p>But that isn\u2019t the only opera to be based on Goethe\u2019s Faust. Herv\u00e9\u2019s \u201cLe Petit Faust\u201d is an operetta in four acts that parodies Gounod\u2019s work, even casting Mephisto as a trouser role, Marguerite as a woman of questionable morals, and Faust as a man who sells his reason instead of his soul for youth.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there is also a setting of the final scene of Goethe\u2019s work in Mahler\u2019s Eighth Symphony.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Werther<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Goethe\u2019s \u201cThe Sorrows of Young Werther\u201d is arguably the source of the greatest opera based on his works. Massenet\u2019s masterpiece obviously does away with the epistolary style of the novel, but the French composer captures the emotional intensity, agony, and poetry of Goethe\u2019s text. It isn\u2019t the only adaptation of \u201cWerther\u201d as operatic versions exist from Kreutzer and Pucitta as well.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Mignon<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Goethe\u2019s \u201cWilhelm Meister\u2019s Apprenticeship\u201d was adapted into a French grand opera by Ambroise Thomas. The work has never been a repertory staple, though it has been a vehicle for mezzos, such as Ris\u00eb Stevens and Marilyn Horne over the years. The work has also found itself referenced James Joyce\u2019s \u201cThe Dead\u201d and \u201cThe Professor\u2019s House\u201d by Willa Cather. \u00a0The original novel was once called one of the four greatest novels ever written by none other than Arthur Schopenhauer.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Le Chalet<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Adolphe Adam\u2019s work is based on the singspiel \u201cJery und B\u00e4tely.\u201d Unsurprisingly, the text for this work was already set to music by other noted composers such as Donizetti, Kreutzer, and Rietz, among others. The opera by Adam premiered on Sept. 25, 1834.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Das M\u00e4rchen von der Sch\u00f6nen Lilie<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Composer Giselher Klebe and his wife Lore Klebe, the librettist, created this work for the Schwetzingen Festival in 1969. It is based on the fairy tale by Goethe known as \u201cDas M\u00e4rchen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born on August 28, 1749, is one of the great German writers in history. Unsurprisingly, his literary prowess has inspired a wide range of operatic works, many of which are staples of the canon. Here is a survey of operas based on the works of Goethe. Faust\u00a0 Goethe\u2019s masterwork is undeniably the source of many operas.&nbsp;{&hellip;}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[479,6],"tags":[2729,2203,618,616,2197,4244,902,260,1543,1094,4243,259],"class_list":["post-21833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-this-day","category-high-notes","tag-berlioz","tag-boito","tag-faust","tag-gounod","tag-la-damnation-de-faust","tag-le-petit-faust","tag-mahler","tag-massenet","tag-mefistofele","tag-mignon","tag-thomas","tag-werther"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Operas Based on the Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - OperaWire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/operawire.com\/operas-based-on-the-works-of-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Operas Based on the Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - OperaWire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born on August 28, 1749, is one of the great German writers in history. 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