Faust (opera)
Grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the opera by Charles Gounod. For the opera by Louis Spohr, see Faust (Spohr). For other operas, see Works based on Faust § Operas.
Faust is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One. It debuted at the Théâtre Lyrique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris on 19 March 1859, with influential sets designed by Charles-Antoine Cambon and Joseph Thierry, Jean Émile Daran, Édouard Desplechin, and Philippe Chaperon.
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Faust | |
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Opera by Charles Gounod | |
Other title | Margarethe or Gretchen |
Librettist | |
Language | French |
Based on | Faust et Marguerite by Michel Carré |
Premiere | |
Website | Profile at Opera-Online.com |
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