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. It debuted at the Théâtre Lyrique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris on March 19, 1859.
Cast:
Faust - Jerry Hadley
Marguerite - Cecilia Gasdia
Mephistopheles - Samuel Ramey
The Welsh National Opera
Carlo Rizzi - conductor
TELDEC - 1994