| Faust | |
|---|---|
| Opera by Charles Gounod | |
&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Faust_by_Gounod_Act3_1859_engraving_by_Lamy_NGO2p134.jpg) Marguerite's garden in the original production, set design by Édouard Desplechin | |
| Other title | Margarethe or Gretchen |
| Librettist | |
| Language | French |
| Based on | Faust et Marguerite by Michel Carré |
| Premiere | 19 March 1859 Théâtre Lyrique, Paris |
| Website | Profile at Opera-Online.com |
Faust is an 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.