September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
When the curtain rose on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the first time on October 22, 1883, audiences witnessed the old scholar Faust seated at a table with an open book before him and heard the music of French composer Charles Gounod. The grand opening at the Metropolitan Opera was a success, and Gounod’s five-act Romantic opera Faust became one of their most performed pieces for the following century.
Loosely based on Goethe’s play of the same name, the story was adapted for the opera stage by librettists Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. The aging ...
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