FAUST

Composer: CHARLES GOUNOD Book by JULES BARBIER and Michel Carré, from Faust by Goethe First performance: Thédtre Lyrique, Paris, March 19, 1850 5 acts. Faust is about to kill himself with poison when Me phis top heles appears in his study and offers him youth in exchange for his soul. Faust accepts after Marguerite is revealed to him at her spinning wheel. Faust and Marguerite fall in love, after which Valentin, her brother, returns from the wars and fights a duel with Faust in which Valentin is killed. Faust and Me phis top heles visit Marguerite in prison where she is waiting death because she killed the child Faust has fathered. Marguerite will not go with them and she is redeemed by her appeals to Heaven. Faust and Me phis top heles disappear.