David McVicar’s production of this opera for Covent (“CUV-int”) Garden includes a set of a cabaret modelled on a run-down tenement block. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this opera whose title character describes his coveting of youth in an Act I aria. This Charles Gounod opera also includes the “Golden Calf” song and the “Jewel Song.”
ANSWER: Faust
[10e] Faust is an opera in this language, which is also the language used in Carmen.
ANSWER: French [or Français]
[10h] Following the “Golden Calf” song in Faust, a group of soldiers cross their pommels, influenced by the “Benediction of the Swords” in this grand opera by Meyerbeer. This opera’s prelude quotes the hymn “Ein feste burg.”
ANSWER: Les Huguenots (“lay yoog-NO”) [or The Huguenots]
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