Faust
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Opera: Work details
| 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 |