Gounod's Faust
About This Event
Amore Opera presents Gounod's Faust. Charles Gounod, a French composer whose stage works helped define grand opera and lyric drama in the 19th century, favored long-breathed melody and clear vocal architecture over orchestral showmanship. Amore Opera has previously mounted fully orchestrated stagings of Gounod’s Faust, which remains a repertory touchstone alongside Roméo et Juliette.
About Faust(opera)
Faust is a grand 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.
About the Artist
Charles Gounod
Charles Gounod was a French composer whose stage works helped define grand opera and lyric drama in the 19th century. His catalogue includes twelve operas, with *Faust* and *Roméo et Juliette* remaining repertory touchstones, alongside a substantial body of sacred music and art song.