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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Giovanni Zenatello as Fausto, Italy, 1904

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Charles Gounod 's opera 'Faust'.

Manfredi as Marta, Fyodor Chaliapin as Méphistophélès, Giovanni Zenatello as Faust and Rosina Storchio as Marguerite in a 1904 Italian production.

Giovanni Mario as Fausto, Adelina Patti as Margherita, Royal Italian Opera.

"Salve! Dimora, casta, e pura!

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Carlo Gounod

Marguerite's garden in Act 3 of the opera Faust by Gounod as presented in the original production at the Théâtre Lyrique on 19 March 1859.

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Marguerite's garden in Act 3 of the opera Faust by Gounod as presented in the original production at the Théâtre Lyrique on 19 March 1859. Set design by Charles-Antoine Cambon and Joseph Thierry.

The vision of Margeurite in Faust's study in Act 1 of Gounod's opera Faust as performed at Covent Garden in 1864.

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The vision of Margeurite in Faust's study in Act 1 of Gounod's opera Faust as performed at Covent Garden in 1864. Méphistophélès was played by Jean-Baptiste Faure, and Faust by Giovanni Mario. From a lithograph on contemporary sheet music cover.



cfr. ENO/Met and La Scala.

A good source of it all: "Salve, dimora, casta e pura" -- Marlowe.

Salve, dimora, casta e pura

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Primo Fausto: G. Morandini, La Scala, 1862. Tr. E. de L.