AIR DES BIJOUX, L'
Created on 22/01/2005Latest update on 22/04/2023
Artist: Marie Miolan-Carvalho
Author: Charles Gounod
Year: 1859
As Marguerite in Act Three of Gounod's opera Faust, first staged at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris and the first opera ever staged at the New York Met. "Ah! Je ris de me voir si belle en ce miroir. Est-ce toi Marguerite? Réponds-moi. Réponds vite".
Covers:
- 1860s:
Christine Nilsson [in the Met in New York]
- 1906:
Bessie Abott [on Edison]
- 1907:
- 1909:
- 1913:
- 1939:
- 1944:
Bianca Castafiore [the Marguerite in Tintin comic strip album The 7 Crystal Balls and in every Tin Tin album featuring La Castafiore since; this repetitive use helped keep it in pole position for archetypical opera diva aria]
