Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Faust

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Name (Latin)
Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Faust
Other forms of name
Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Margarete
Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Margarethe
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 301045531
Wikidata: Q745951
Library of congress: n 84043347
Sources of Information
  • Grove Music Online WWW site, Sept. 30, 2005(Faust, opéra, 5 acts; libretto: Barbier and Carré, after Carré: Faust et Marguerite, and J.W. von Goethe: Faust; 1st perf.: Paris, March 19, 1859)
  • LC in OCLC, 7/25/84(hdg.: Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893. Faust)
  • Von der Hofoper zur Staatsoper. II [SR] 1965.

Wikipedia description:

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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