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Faust by Gounod Act 1 1864. Covent Garden lithograph. Source: Stanley Sadie. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera 2: 132 (1992).
Faust (International) assertion single work   musical theatre   opera  
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Issue Details: First known date: 1859... 1859 Faust
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Based from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (Part 1), Charles Gounod's Faust is a grand opera in five acts set to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré.

Adaptations

Faust M.D. ; Or, The Doctor, the Damsel, the Demon and the Dragoon W. M. Akhurst , 1865 single work musical theatre burlesque fantasy humour

Adapted from Charles Gounod's opera Faust (1859), itself loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (1808), Faust M. D. was advertised in the Argus as a 'new local burlesque opera' (21 October 1865, p.8). A review in the same paper records, 'The trifle is quite equal to the same author's Massaniello, which has only just been withdrawn, and the local jokes are perhaps better' (23 October 1865, p.5).
Faust (International) assertion B. L. Farjeon , 1866 single work musical theatre burlesque

Written especially for actress Julia Matthews, B. L. Farjeon's Faust interweaves the legend of Mephistopheles with Gounad's opera (1859).

Production Details

  • Faust was first staged at the Théâtre Lyrique on the Boulevard du Temple, Paris, on 19 March 1859.

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