Faust

Also known as Margarethe, Margarete

grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod

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Other title: Margarethe or Gretchen
Librettist: Jules Barbier Michel Carré
Language: French
Based on: Faust et Marguerite , by Michel Carré
Premiere: 19 March 1859 ( 1859-03-19 ) , Théâtre Lyrique , Paris
Website: Profile at Opera-Online.com

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Image: Faust (tenore), figurino di Attilio Comelli per Faust (1903) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON003455.jpg

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Faust is a grand 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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