Operas & Operetta
Composer: Gounod, Charles
Gounod’s setting of the Shakespeare tragedy opened in Paris in 1867, and proved to be hugely popular.
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by Gounod, Charles
Edmund Tracey’s translation of Gounod’s famous 1859 opera brings vigorous new life to Goethe’s Faust story. The opera is particularly famous for Marguerite’s ‘jewel song’....