All 13 Uses
Faust
in
The Phantom of the Opera
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- Those who heard her say that her voice, in these passages, was seraphic; but this was nothing to the superhuman notes that she gave forth in the prison scene and the final trio in FAUST, which she sang in the place of La Carlotta, who was ill.†
Chpt 2Faust = literary character who sells his soul to the devil in order to become all-knowing
- Debienne and Poligny: GENTLEMEN: We are much obliged for your kind thought of us, but you will easily understand that the prospect of again hearing Faust, pleasant though it is to ex-managers of the Opera, can not make us forget that we have no right to occupy Box Five on the grand tier, which is the exclusive property of HIM of whom we spoke to you when we went through the memorandum-book with you for the last time.†
Chpt 4
- The thing had happened in M. Debienne and M. Poligny's time, also in Box Five and also during a performance of FAUST.†
Chpt 4 *
- It will be FAUST on Saturday: let us both see the performance from Box Five on the grand tier!†
Chpt 6
- Chapter VII — Faust and What Followed.†
Chpt 7
- If you refuse, you will give FAUST to-night in a house with a curse upon it.†
Chpt 7
- The famous baritone, Carolus Fonta, had hardly finished Doctor Faust's first appeal to the powers of darkness, when M. Firmin Richard, who was sitting in the ghost's own chair, the front chair on the right, leaned over to his partner and asked him chaffingly: "Well, has the ghost whispered a word in your ear yet?"†
Chpt 7
- She was applauded all the more; and her debut with Faust seemed about to bring her a new success, when suddenly ...a terrible thing happened.†
Chpt 7
- Faust had knelt on one knee: "Let me gaze on the form below me, While from yonder ether blue Look how the star of eve, bright and tender, lingers o'er me, To love thy beauty too!"†
Chpt 7
- FAUST was played without her.†
Chpt 8
- She sang Margarita in FAUST and triumphed!†
Chpt 9
- They were giving FAUST, as it happened, before a splendid house.†
Chpt 13
- This was done about half an hour before the curtain rose on the first act of Faust.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(Faust) literary character who sells his soul to the devil in order to become all-knowing, or godlikeFaust's most famous appearances are as the protagonist of Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" (1604) and Goethe's "Faust" (1832).
A German necromancer, Georg Faust (~1480-~1538) is thought to have been an actual person who inspired the Faustian legend. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)