Faust: A Lyric Drama in Five Acts

by Charles Gounod from c. 1859 (opera)

About

Gounod's Faust libretto (1859) is the text underlying one of the most performed operas in the repertoire — for decades it was virtually the most performed opera in the world. Barbier and Carré's adaptation concentrates entirely on the Gretchen tragedy from Goethe's Faust Part One, transforming the philosophical framework into a romantic melodrama of love, betrayal, and damnation. As a reading text it shows how the Goethe original was translated into operatic convention, with all the compression and simplification that entails. The garden scene and the final trio are among the most famous sequences in French opera.

Translated from the original French.

Opera / Libretto Romantic Passionate Lyrical Darken

Faust: A Lyric Drama in Five Acts

Characters: 46
Words: 7.3k
Acts: 4
Scenes: 23
Duration: ~55 min

Characters

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1

Mep

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126

2

FAUST

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122

3

Mar

—

84

4

Val

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40

5

Sie

—

29

6

MARTHA

—

21

7

Cho

—

15

8

Wag

—

14

35 sections

7.3k words

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Act I

1

Act I. Scene I.

2591:57

2

Act I. Scene II.

3632:43

Act II

3

Act II. Scene I.

2732:03

4

Act II. Scene II.

1961:28

5

Act II. Scene III.

540:24

6

Ii.

1361:01

7

Scene IV.

950:43

8

Scene V.

1080:49

9

Scene II.

390:18

10

Scene III.

410:18

11

Scene IV.

1200:54

12

Scene V.

360:16

13

Scene VI.

230:10

14

Scene VII.

510:23

15

Scene VIII.

2692:01

16

Scene IX.

600:27

17

Scene X.

3012:15

18

Scene XI.

410:18

19

Scene XII.

560:25

Act IV

20

Act IV. Scene I.

740:33

21

Ii.

370:17

22

Scene II.

2251:41

23

Scene III.

230:10

24

Scene IV.

2001:30

25

Scene V.

570:26

26

Scene VI.

1501:08

27

Scene VII.

1300:59

Act V

28

Act V. Scene I.

2782:05

29

Act V. Scene II.

1911:26

30

ACTE PREMIER.

1210:54

31

ACTE PREMIER. SCÈNE II.

4503:23

32

ACTE PREMIER. SCÈNE II.

1721:17

33

ACTE PREMIER. SCÈNE III.

330:15

34

Ii.

1.4k10:43

35

Ii.

1.2k9:22

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