Actually, Goethe himself said that Mozart was the only composer who could
ever have done justice to his *Faust*. Imagine...!
John P.
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Mark Harris wrote:
> Brian Donaghey wrote:
>
> > >> Well, John, we might have done if we thought it was going to be about the
> > >> Theophilus who was a kind of medieval proto-Dr Faustus--and the special
> > >> effects as he worked miracles and was then dragged off to hell were
> > >> spectacular enough!
>
> and John Parsons added:
> > But wasn't he saved by the intervention of the BVM? At least isn't that
> > the version carved on one of the Notre-Dame portals in Paris?
>
> What a spendid Mozart opera that would make: a combination of
> Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, with a touch of Figaro thrown in.
> Wherever he is now, Mozart's librettist Da Ponte must be kicking
> himself that he didn't think of it :-)
>
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