Faust: A Lyric Drama in Five Acts and Eleven Scenes

sketch it was he who proposed “Faust” as an operatic subject to the librettists. “Іп 1856,” he writes, “I made the acquaintance of Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. I asked them if they were disposed to work with me, and to entrust to me a poem, to which they consented with great willingness. The first subject to which I called their attention was ‘Faust.’ This idea impressed them favorably. We went to see M.