Charles Gounod from Paris Marguerite ", inspired by Goethe's famous literary masterpiece, became a real sensation at its premiere on March 19, 1859 in Paris. Of Goethe's librettists, Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, used essentially a plot skeleton and several lyrics, but Gounod's musical conception of the theme was completely new, vital. He alternates the tenderness of love lyr...