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Pages in category "Operas by Charles Gounod" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Gounod wrote twelve operas, in a variety of the genres then prevailing in France. Sapho (1851) was an early example of opéra lyrique , smaller-scale and more intimate than grand opera but through-composed , without the spoken dialogue of opéra comique .
Philémon et Baucis (Opera in three acts, first performed at the Théâtre Lyrique on 18 February 1860. Gounod revised this for a definitive 2-act version at the Opéra-Comique on 16 May 1876). Libretto by Barbier and Carré, after the tale of Baucis and Philemon as told by Jean de La Fontaine, derived in turn from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
The opera entered the repertoire of the Opéra-Comique on 20 January 1873 (with Deloffre and Carvalho returning to their roles from the premiere), where it received 391 performances in 14 years. [3] On 28 November 1888 Roméo et Juliette transferred to the Paris Opéra, with Adelina Patti and Jean de Reszke in the leading roles. [ 3 ]
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.
This is a partial discography of Charles Gounod's opera Roméo et Juliette. It was first performed by the Théâtre Lyrique , Paris, on 27 April 1867. Audio recordings
La reine de Saba (The Queen of Sheba) is a grand opera in four or five [1] acts by Charles Gounod to a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré inspired by Gérard de Nerval's La Reine de Saba, in Le voyage en Orient. It was premiered at the Salle Le Peletier by the Paris Opera on February 28, 1862.
The action of the opera is quite faithful to Mistral, although the sequence of events of the Val d’Enfer (Act 3, Scene 1) and Mireille's avowal of her love of Vincent to her father (Act 2 finale) are reversed in the opera. [4] Gounod's biographer James Harding has argued that "what matters in this extended lyric poem is not the story but the ...