Composer
Librettists
Based On
the epic drama by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
1937
Language
French
Creative/Crew
Cast
Faust, a learned philosopher
Méphistophélès
Marguérite
Valentine, her brother
Siebel, a young soldier in love with Marguerite
Marthe, chaperon of Marguerite
Wagner
Show Dates
Broadcast
Live broadcast, Act III, Garden scene.
Time and Place
Germany during the sixteenth century
Scenes
PROLOGUE -- Faust's Study
Act I -- A Public Square -- The Kermesse
Act II -- Marguerite's Garden
Act III -- A Street in Front of the Cathedral near Marguerite's House
Act IV -- The prison
Media
Document
SFO_PUB_01_SFO_1937_04_compressed.pdf
(7.21 MB)
Notes
To access the full production program, click the PDF link above.
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10/23/1937, live broadcast, Act III, Garden scene: "Faust, Act III (Garden Scene): Giovanni Martinelli (Faust), Charlotte Boerner (Marguerite), Ezio Pinza (Mephistopheles), Olga Callahan (Marthe), Helen Beatty (Siebel); Pietro Cimini."
Program note:
The famous ballet of the original "Walpurgis Night," a scene usually omitted from the opera, is here given integrally by the entire Opera Ballet.
Ballet costumes of women dancers by STAGECRAFT STUDIOS, Berkeley.