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In his foreword to Arnold Mortier's work " The Parisian evenings of 1883 ", Gounod identifies one of the most dangerous tendencies of artistic effort in "search of effects ", adding " that the preoccupation for effects is nothing else than a lack of faith in truth, a cowardice of incredulity.... When you'll see an artist worried about the impact his work will have, consider as somebody who has more love for his person than for his art: he's a glorious! ". In his "Mémoires"", considering the public he adds: "The theater audience is a dynamometer: it does not have to know of the value of a work from a taste point of view; it measures only the passionate power and degree of emotion of it, thus making it clearly a dramatic work, an expression of what happens in the personal or collective human soul. The result is that audience and author are mutually called to artisticly educate one another: the audience, by being for the author the criterion and penalty of Truth; the author, by introducing the audience to elements and conditions of Beauty ".

Below are listed the operas of Gounod in chronological order. Click the button "CARD" and you will reach a complete description of the selected opera.

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1851

SAPHO

1854

LA NONNE SANGLANTE

1858

LE MEDECIN MALGRÉ LUI

1859

FAUST

1860

PHILÉMON ET BAUCIS

1860

LA COLOMBE

1862

LA REINE DE SABA

1864

MIREILLE

1867

ROMÉO ET JULIETTE

1877

CINQ-MARS

1878

POLYEUCTE

1881

LE TRIBUT DE ZAMORA

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