Faust (opera)

Faust
Opera by Charles Gounod
Marguerite's garden in the original production, set design by Édouard Desplechin
Other titleMargarethe or Gretchen
Librettist
LanguageFrench
Based onFaust et Marguerite
by Michel Carré
Premiere
19 March 1859 (1859-03-19)
WebsiteProfile 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.