Jules Barbier
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Paul Jules Barbier was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré.
Barbier c. 1880
Faust (opera)
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Faust is a grand 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'
Jules Barbier
…His libretti for extant operas (those co-written with Carré are shown with an asterisk) include: Charles Gounod: La Colombe, Faust (*), Le médecin malgré lui (*), Philémon et Baucis, Polyeucte, La reine de Saba and Roméo et Juliette (*) Victor Massé: Galathée Les Saisons…
Marguerite's garden in the original production, set design by Édouard Desplechin
Miolan-Carvalho as Marguerite (1860)
Costume design for Faust
The vision of Marguerite as staged at Covent Garden in 1864 with Jean-Baptiste Faure as Méphistophélès and Giovanni Mario as Faust