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Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938) is a libretto for an opera by the American modernist playwright and poet Gertrude Stein. The text has become a rite of passage for avant-garde theatre artists from the United States: La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Judson Poets' Group, The Living Theatre, Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson, and The Wooster Group have all produced the piece.

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Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights

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Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938) is a libretto for an opera by the American modernist playwright and poet Gertrude Stein. The text has become a...

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Faust

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Pessoa Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938) by Gertrude Stein My Faust (1940) by Paul Valéry Faust '67 (1969) by Tommaso Landolfi Doctor Faustus (1979)...

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Glenn Shadix

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decorator Otho, while appearing in The Groundlings comedy troupe and performing in the stage play Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, portraying Gertrude Stein...

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Works based on Faust

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Douglas Moore's The Devil and Daniel Webster (1938) Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938 libretto) Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress...

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Gertrude Stein

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the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind (1936) Everybody's Autobiography (1937) Picasso, photo. Cecil Beaton (1938) Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights...

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Surrealism

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surrealist plays include Aragon's Backs to the Wall (1925). Gertrude Stein's opera Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938) has also been described as "American...

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Four Saints in Three Acts

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suggested the topic, and the libretto as delivered can be read in Stein's collected works. The opera features two 16th-century Spanish saints—the former...

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Leo Stein

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collector and critic. He was born in Allegheny City (now in Pittsburgh), the older brother of Gertrude Stein. He became an influential promoter of 20th-century...

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Anouk Grinberg

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actress. She is the daughter of Michel Vinaver (born Michel Grinberg), a French writer and dramatist, and the great-granddaughter of the pre-1917 Russian...

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Center for Contemporary Opera

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Times, June 30, 2000. Accessed 26 March 2008. Midgette, Ann Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, The New York Times, March 1, 2002. Accessed 26 March 2008. Tommasini...

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Mefistofele

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five acts, later reduced to four acts and an epilogue, the only completed opera with music by the Italian composer-librettist Arrigo Boito (there are several...

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Stanley Walden

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such as a jazz opera of Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (UA Cologne 1983, New York), the opera Liebster Vater (UA Bremen 1987, also...

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Al Carmines

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composer, text by Gertrude Stein, directed by Lawrence Kornfeld "Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights" (1979) composer, text by Gertrude Stein, directed by Lawrence...

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Zoe Beloff

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by their theatrical work House/Lights (which was itself derived from Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights). Beloff created Where Where ThereThere...

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Richard Foreman

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Music and the RO theater in Rotterdam, Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights at the Autumn Festivals in Berlin and Paris.[citation needed]...

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Gertrude and Alice

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the relationship between Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Souhami devotes two chapters, respectively, to the early years of Gertrude Stein and the...

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Johan Petri

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Alice Notley, Radiotart, Stockholm, Sweden. 2021: Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, by Gertrude Stein/The Rosehips, Radioart, Stockholm, Sweden. 2022: To...

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Stage works of Paul Goodman

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followed productions of Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights and Kenneth Rexroth's Beyond the Mountains, which sold out and flopped, respectively...

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