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Jewel Song may refer to: "Ah! Je ris de me voir", from Charles Gounod's opera Faust "Air de bijoux" Alternative name for Facing the Music, 1933 ...
Faust (Jaewoo Kim) realises the consequences of his actions, 2006 New Zealand Opera production. Méphistophélès and Faust are surrounded by witches ("Un, deux et trois"). Faust is transported to a cave of queens and courtesans, and Méphistophélès promises to provide Faust with the love of the greatest and most beautiful women in history ...
The authors labelled Faust "a lyric drama", and some commentators find the lyrical scenes stronger than the dramatic and supernatural ones. [1] [118] Among the best known numbers from the piece are Marguerite's "Jewel" song, the Soldiers
Although she is apparently one of the leading opera singers of her generation, the only thing that Castafiore is ever heard to sing are a few lines of her signature aria, "The Jewel Song" (l'air des bijoux, from Gounod's Faust), always at ear-splitting volume (and violent force—certainly enough to part the Captain's hair, shatter glasses and ...
The libretto was by Barbier and Carré, from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One. 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
For the English version of the book, the gramophone record that Tintin receives from Castafiore, which is the "Jewel Song" from Charles Gounod's Faust, is titled "Margarethe", the name by which Gounod's opera is known in Germany but not in England. [27]
He has a tear in each note and a sigh in each breath. He sang the jewel song in [Gounod's] Faust, which seemed horribly out of place. Especially when he asks (in the hand-glass) if he is really Marguerita, one feels tempted to answer 'Macchè' [not in the least] for him. [6]
Beginning around September 1908, Lorraine performed in The Royal Opera House, The Hague, where she sang as Marguerite in Charles Gounod's Faust. [1] [16] A contemporary review stated that her voice "excited great admiration and there was great applause after the rendering of the 'Jewel Song' in the garden scene". [16]