Steve Schwartz wrote:

>Meyerbeer turned down a libretto by Barbier and Carre with the
>remark that Faust was "the Ark of the Covenant, not to be profaned with
>music."

That is a strange remark from Meyerbeer since the Faust drama is
interwoven with music and whole parts of it, especially in the Second
Part, are written as a kind of Singspiel.  By the way, Goethe wrote a
lot of Singspiele and a second part of the Magic Flute.

Robert Peters
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