Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The Metamorphosis of Plants, originally published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend "the truth about the how of the organism." Inspired by the diversity of flora he found on a journey to Italy, Goethe sought a unity of form in diverse structures. He came to see in the leaf the germ of a plant's metamorphosis - "the true Proteus who can hide or reveal himself in all vegetal forms" - from the...

Includes part one and sections from part two.

A man living in sixteeth-century Germany sells his soul to the devil.

A rock opera based on the play by Goethe.