The story of Faust is one of those tales which grabs the human imagination. Wikipedia lists the following versions of the story in opera:
Louis Spohr's Faust (1816)
Hector Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust (1846)
Charles Gounod's Faust (1859)
Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele (1868)
Meyer Lutz's romantic opera Faust and Marguerite and his burlesque Faust up to date (1888)
Ferruccio Busoni's Doktor Faust (1916–25)
Sergei Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel (1927; first performed 1954)
Hermann Reutter's
Doktor Johannes Faust, Op. 47 (1936, revised 1955)
Don Juan und Faust, Op. 75 (1950)
Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938 libretto)
Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1951)
Hanns Eisler's Johann Faustus (1952 libretto)
Havergal Brian's Faust (1955–56)
Henri Pousseur (music) and Michel Butor (libretto), Votre Faust (1960–68), and related "satellite" works
Konrad Boehmer's Doktor Faustus (1983), libretto by Hugo Claus
Alfred Schnittke's Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1994)
John Coolidge Adams' Doctor Atomic (2005)
Pascal Dusapin's Faustus, the Last Night (2006)
But the grandest version of all such operas is waiting to be written, i.e. the husband/wife version involving SlicKKK and Hildabeast Dindu KKKlintler, assuming that Mephistopheles or somebody like that hauls the two of those lunatics away prior to the November election, which is what appears to be likely to happen.
You actually could make an opera out of the SlicKKK/Hildabeast story. Notice that in all existing versions, Margarita is virtuous and ultimately is saved as Mephistopheles hauls Faustus off to hellfire. Picture if you will, however, a version in which male and female protagonists are BOTH ********s, and the audience gets to stand up and cheer as Mephistopheles hauls BOTH of their goofy butts off!! I mean, you don't think Verdi or Richard Wagner would be slobbering over a possibility like that??
Act I Scene I starts out with Slick and Hilda both bemoaning their fates as 25-year-old washout super losers, Slick having been booted from the Rhodes scholarship program for one sexual assault too many, Hilda being fired from that Watergate Committee and unable to pass the D.C. bar exam, and Jethro Tull playing the locomotive song, "In the shuffling madness, locomotive breath, slouch the all time losers, headlong to their death....,"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ZEL0WNkFA
The idea would be to try to get Jethro Tull's permission to use Locomotive Breath as an overture for the opera.
Act I, Scene I
SlicKKK and Hildabeast meet in a public park in Washington D.C., each sings an aria of despair:
SlicKKK bemoans his fate, thrown out of Oxford for trying to rape a blond coed who appeared frail and rapable enough but turned out to be a Japanese hard-style Shoryn-ryu karate artist (and also a neice of the president of Oxford University) who stomped the **** out of him, took his shoes and pants, the university heaved him into the street and Cecil Rhodes was haunting him in dreams, calling him the worst and stupidest piece of white trash ever to darken the land of Albion or the sacred halls of Oxford University.
Hildabeast follows with an aria of her own, no less a lamentation: heaved from the Watergate Committee by Jerome Zeifman for dishonest methods, failure to pass the D.C. bar exam, then tried her luck as a street walker and couldn't even get takers at $15, looking for a way out...
The scene ends with the two of them singing a lust duet (with apologies to Grace Slick...):
"When the truth is found, to be lies
and all the joy, within you dies,
don't you want somebody to pork
don't you NEED somebody to pork....
Scene II, the arrival of Mephistopheles, "Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste.... Do not despair young gangsters, I have the solution to all of your problems, wealth and power beyond your dreams, cocaine, teenage girls, whatever it is you need!!!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-sD5Xy2N-E
Such an opera could have a long cast of characters, including the entire Bush family, Bork and Mike Obunga, Jim McDougal, Webster Hubbel, Monica, Vince Foster...
and it could have a long list of gangster activities to include as scenes:
http://ift.tt/2eh87JH
Somebody like Jacque Offenbach could have a field day with this idea...
Louis Spohr's Faust (1816)
Hector Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust (1846)
Charles Gounod's Faust (1859)
Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele (1868)
Meyer Lutz's romantic opera Faust and Marguerite and his burlesque Faust up to date (1888)
Ferruccio Busoni's Doktor Faust (1916–25)
Sergei Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel (1927; first performed 1954)
Hermann Reutter's
Doktor Johannes Faust, Op. 47 (1936, revised 1955)
Don Juan und Faust, Op. 75 (1950)
Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938 libretto)
Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1951)
Hanns Eisler's Johann Faustus (1952 libretto)
Havergal Brian's Faust (1955–56)
Henri Pousseur (music) and Michel Butor (libretto), Votre Faust (1960–68), and related "satellite" works
Konrad Boehmer's Doktor Faustus (1983), libretto by Hugo Claus
Alfred Schnittke's Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1994)
John Coolidge Adams' Doctor Atomic (2005)
Pascal Dusapin's Faustus, the Last Night (2006)
But the grandest version of all such operas is waiting to be written, i.e. the husband/wife version involving SlicKKK and Hildabeast Dindu KKKlintler, assuming that Mephistopheles or somebody like that hauls the two of those lunatics away prior to the November election, which is what appears to be likely to happen.
You actually could make an opera out of the SlicKKK/Hildabeast story. Notice that in all existing versions, Margarita is virtuous and ultimately is saved as Mephistopheles hauls Faustus off to hellfire. Picture if you will, however, a version in which male and female protagonists are BOTH ********s, and the audience gets to stand up and cheer as Mephistopheles hauls BOTH of their goofy butts off!! I mean, you don't think Verdi or Richard Wagner would be slobbering over a possibility like that??
Act I Scene I starts out with Slick and Hilda both bemoaning their fates as 25-year-old washout super losers, Slick having been booted from the Rhodes scholarship program for one sexual assault too many, Hilda being fired from that Watergate Committee and unable to pass the D.C. bar exam, and Jethro Tull playing the locomotive song, "In the shuffling madness, locomotive breath, slouch the all time losers, headlong to their death....,"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ZEL0WNkFA
The idea would be to try to get Jethro Tull's permission to use Locomotive Breath as an overture for the opera.
Act I, Scene I
SlicKKK and Hildabeast meet in a public park in Washington D.C., each sings an aria of despair:
SlicKKK bemoans his fate, thrown out of Oxford for trying to rape a blond coed who appeared frail and rapable enough but turned out to be a Japanese hard-style Shoryn-ryu karate artist (and also a neice of the president of Oxford University) who stomped the **** out of him, took his shoes and pants, the university heaved him into the street and Cecil Rhodes was haunting him in dreams, calling him the worst and stupidest piece of white trash ever to darken the land of Albion or the sacred halls of Oxford University.
Hildabeast follows with an aria of her own, no less a lamentation: heaved from the Watergate Committee by Jerome Zeifman for dishonest methods, failure to pass the D.C. bar exam, then tried her luck as a street walker and couldn't even get takers at $15, looking for a way out...
The scene ends with the two of them singing a lust duet (with apologies to Grace Slick...):
"When the truth is found, to be lies
and all the joy, within you dies,
don't you want somebody to pork
don't you NEED somebody to pork....
Scene II, the arrival of Mephistopheles, "Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste.... Do not despair young gangsters, I have the solution to all of your problems, wealth and power beyond your dreams, cocaine, teenage girls, whatever it is you need!!!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-sD5Xy2N-E
Such an opera could have a long cast of characters, including the entire Bush family, Bork and Mike Obunga, Jim McDougal, Webster Hubbel, Monica, Vince Foster...
and it could have a long list of gangster activities to include as scenes:
http://ift.tt/2eh87JH
Somebody like Jacque Offenbach could have a field day with this idea...
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