My Visit To Houston Grand Opera

The story of Faust has inspired creative works for hundreds of years. The myth features an ambitious and intelligent man, usually a scholar, who desires more than his current situation can offer him and so makes a dangerous pact with the devil. Interpretations of this story range from classical music and opera to paintings and cartoons. From Goethe to Radiohead, Dr. Faustus’ thirst for knowledge and the chaos this desire produces have captivated artists of all disciplines. This paper will examine two theatrical depictions of this myth. A little more than 400 years separate the original productions of Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus and David Mamet’s Faustus, but both plays feature the bare

I think that this play is an example of a damning folly. The reason behind that is that  Faustus is not a good guy. It is also a damned folly because he sold his soul to the Devil and that is not a good thing at all. I think that this play is kind of confusing as well. Faustus said that he could not take it anymore and so he decided to sell his soul to the Devil. I do not think that was good of him to do so. He also said that he would do anything to stay with the Devil. I think that he should have made a better decision when it came to his life. This play was to have specific things about certain things. I do not know what else to think about. I think that Faustus is also a romantic person. The reason behind that I because he was asking

The ending of Shakespeare’s famous play Romeo & Juliet, is devastating yet expected, as the “pair of star-cross’d lovers” (Prologue.9) dramatically kill themselves, leaving their friends and family in pure shock and sadness. In the play, the situations leading up to this dreadful incident should be blamed on the lovers themselves, as well as their secrecy with the absurd relationship that was caused by the couple’s family feud which definitely takes the blame for the double suicide. A long string of events that happened which lead to these deaths, were triggered by these three situations.

So we’ve reached Act III of Romeo and Juliet, and this is when things start going wrong for our “star-crossed lovers”. Fortunes begin to decline for our characters, first with Mercutio and Tybalt’s slaughter, then Romeo’s banishment, and finally Capulets resolve to marry Juliet to Paris. It’s just human nature that we feel bad for the couple, and we abandon blame on them, instead blaming the events on fate.

For this assignment, I went to the Basically Beethoven Festival at the Dallas City Performance Hall. The recital was opened with a few pieces played by the rising stars Madera Wind Quintet. The main performance included Rachel McDonald on the viola, Joseph Kuipers on the cello, Grace Wollett on the violin, Scott Wollett on the oboe, and the great pianist Alex McDonald. They performed a compilation of famous composers’ masterpieces.

Fate commands the lives of the characters from birth, with their deaths predetermined by generations of feuding and violence. In the prologue Shakespeare reveals the traumatic ending, that “a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life” before

On the 5th of December, I attended my second concert in Cypress Recital Hall. It was an amazing experience. I got to fully appreciate the sounds of the violin and the piano. Erika Salas, played the Violin accompanied by Yoko Mizuno, Doris Wang and Michael Cooper each individually performed a different piece on the piano. The first song was Sonata in D major HWV 371 by George Frideric Handel and performed by Erika Salis and Yoko Mizuno. The structure of this sonata was made up of four movements. Affetuoso feeling, tenderly, Allegro lively, fast, Larghetto slowly, steadily, and Allegro energetic, fast. Each section had a specific form the first movement reminds one of a slow symphony. The Allegro is written in a fugue, polyphonic style. The

When I first walked into the Granada Theatre I was amazed by the intricate detail put into the design of the venue. At first glance, it seemed to be an extremely high class venue, and it made sense why Professor Roy asked us to dress nicely. In all honesty I felt totally out of my element. I showed up a couple minutes late so they had me stand until the first piece was over to take my seat. The seriousness added to the layer of prestige that I had begun to attribute to the event. When I finally took my seat, I was astounded by the setup too. The piano was center stage. I was expecting an orchestra before I had arrived, but was not too disappointed to see just Yuja Wang. I could see her, but I could also see people sitting in the balcony. The

In order to get out of her situation, Juliet fakes her death and plans to run away with Romeo. Unaware her death was fake, Romeo decides to kill himself. When Juliet finds him dead, she kills herself as well. Once their families learn of their deaths and secret love, their feud is ended. Throughout this play, the characters blame fate for the tragedies that occur.

(535 - 545) Faust has perhaps already resigned himself to a loveless life, or perhaps his strong feelings for acclaim and knowledge cloud the possibilities of what love can bring to one’s life, if one only lets it rise

Mephistopheles uses a vison of a beautiful woman, Margarete, in order to get him to sign the contract. He promises Faust both youth and the girl, which leads to them going to see her. In the second act

In this paper, it will discuss the theme of Faust and Duc de Nemours: sagas of disillusionment and thwarted ambitions in both novels Faust, Part 1 and The Princesse de Cleves. At first glance one must be able to understand what disillusionment and thwarted ambition is. When one talks about disillusionment, it is referred to as a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not good as one believed it to be. Thwarted ambition refers to the opposition or prevention from something we desire or want to achieve. The stories of Faust and Nemours play a significant role in coming to terms with this theme because of their many attempts at happiness and irrational actions. Faust is disillusioned and demoralized

Faustus. On the other hand, it occurs in Christianity where God is the judge of the universe, and every single human being either goes to heaven or hell. As a matter of fact, there are angels and devils, with the angels that advising people to stay true to God, while the devils are persuading them to sin. Thus, the play seems to portray a message that is to avoid sin, and must repent if he or she couldn’t refrain from sin. Notably, in Christianity, seeing that a person is alive, there is a possibility to repent, and that is acceptable. As an illustration, if someone understands and realizes his or her own mistakes, God may forgive him or her even at the last moment.

Romanticism is the belief that poetry is an imitation of life and that feelings and emotion were more reliable than a scientific thought. During the Romanticism, society in this period focused a lot on nature and imagination because romanticism had and has no definable standards. The Romantic Period also had a big interest in finding the truth in everything, especially in unique individuals. Due to the way they saw the world they valued every individual thing, and the size or color had no matter to them. “Faust,” by Goethe is a non-fiction story written in the Romantic period, this story is a good example of this particular period because it really truly reflects what the characteristics of this romantic period of time were all about.

The play is a human tragedy for not only is Faustus tragically constituted in his boundless ambitions but, at the same time, the play questions the effectiveness of the cultural aspirations that shape his ambitions. Consequently, the play provides a complex interaction between the human dimensions of the dramatic character and the ambiguities and ambivalences of the cultural situation the character is placed in.