Pictures of
Charles Gounod

French composer
(1818-93)


Gounod is known for his operas, especially Faust. Other notable examples of Gounod music include: the operas, Le Médecin malgré lui (The Mock Doctor) and Mirielle; the funeral cantata, Gallia; and the oratorios, La Rédemption and Mors et Vita (Life and Death).




Charles Gounod







Margeurite at prayer in the cathedral in the opera Faust (Act 4, scene 3) by Charles Gounod. The set design is by Charles-Antoine Cambon for an early production of this opera (perhaps the 1869 production at the Opéra de Paris).

(Source: Germain Bapst, Essai sur l'histoire du théâtre. Paris, Hachette, 1893.)





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