Faust (opera)

Faust, Charles Gounod's operatic retelling of the Faust legend, debuted at the Théatre-Lyrique on 19 March 1859.

Popular impact

Parts of the opera have seeped in popular culture in Europe over more than a century. The most global impression has perhaps been left by the famous aria sung by Marguerite, the jewel song, since children all over the world have been reading its first words in several albums of the adventures of Tintin. In this series of graphic novels or comic strips our hero and his sidekick, Captain Haddock often encounter a bombastic opera singer called Bianca Castafiore. Her trademark is the jewel song, which she always belts out at high volume, never saying a word more or a word less than Ah! je ris de me voir si belle en ce miroir within the confines of the strip. We usually assume that she is quite capable of singing the rest of the aria and the entire opera.

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Europe - Tintin - Comic strip - Captain Haddock - Bianca Castafiore

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