Faust Overture Faust Overture The Faust Overture is a concert overture by German composer Richard Wagner. Wagner originally composed it between 1839 and 1840, intending it to be the first movement of a "Faust Symphony" based on the play "Faust" by German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Realizing that he would not finish the planned symphony, Wagner revised the piece between 1843 and 1844, incorporating ideas from the other planned movements, and creating instead a single-movement concert overture. He made a final revision in 1855. The work is one of Wagner's few compositions intended for the concert hall, rather than the theatre.
The world (concert hall) by architects V. A. Butuzov, N. S. Strigalova, M. I. Bogdanov, and engineers L. Bogatkin, V. Kotov, and A. Levenshtein. During the reconstruction only the original brick walls were preserved. The new cinema "Mir" (translating as "world") was opened on February 28, 1958 as a Kinopanorama cinema. In 1960, it was converted into a larger widescreen cinema with 1,220 seats. In 2006 the cinema was again reconstructed, after which it opened as a concert hall for 923 spectators. The last reconstruction was carried out in 2017, after which the world became a concert and entertainment venue. The building is brick,