Composer: |
Charles-François Gounod |
Music title: |
Faust (1859) |
Librettist: |
Jules Barbier |
Librettist: |
Michel Carré |
Work definition: |
Opera in five acts |
After: |
After the play 'Faust et Marguerite' by Michel Carré and Part I of the tragedy 'Faust' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (in the French translation by Gérard de Nerval) |
Language: |
French |
World premiere: |
19 March 1859, Théâtre Lyrique, Paris |
ROH premiere: |
2 July 1863, Royal Italian Opera |
ROH company premiere: |
22 November 1974, The Royal Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London |