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The libretto, published in 1952, portrayed Faust as an indecisive person who betrayed the cause of the working class by not joining the German peasants' war, which, you'd have thought, would have gone down a treat.
The libretto published in Mantua in 1607 to coincide with the premiere incorporates Striggio's ambiguous ending.
The libretto published in Venice in 1622 takes the form of a prologue and eight scenes, although other arrangements of the text have been suggested.
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The libretto was published in 1630, in Venice, by Evangelista Deuchino.
Feind's German versions of the libretto were published in Hamburg in 1715, 1723 and 1727.
A second edition of the libretto was published in Venice in that year.
The libretto was published in London by the Queen's Theatre in February 1711, to coincide with the premiere, with Hill's English translation.
There is some evidence to suggest a possible performance in Dubrovnik, in or some time after 1620; a Croatian translation of the libretto was published in Ancona in 1633.
Because of the experimental nature of the ballet, its libretto appeared concurrently; it was the first formal libretto published for a dance drama.
It is also the first ballet of which there is a printed account (libretto); it was published in 1582 as the Balet comique de la royne by Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx, who had conceived and staged the ballet as Catherine's director of court festivals.
A revised version of the libretto had been published in 1639, with substantial cuts and revisions from the 1608 version to remove passages too specifically linked to the Mantuan wedding.
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