<Ul> <Li> Jules Barbier </Li> <Li> Michel Carré </Li> </Ul> <Tr> <Th> Based on </Th> <Td> Faust et Marguerite by Carré </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Premiere </Th> <Td> 19 March 1859 (1859 - 03 - 19) Théâtre Lyrique, Paris </Td> </Tr> <P> 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's Faust, Part One . It debuted at the Théâtre Lyrique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris on 19 March 1859, with influential sets designed by Charles - Antoine Cambon and Joseph Thierry, Jean Émile Daran, Édouard Desplechin, and Philippe Chaperon . </P>

Mephistopheles is a character in this charles gounod work