Opéra Royal - Gounod : Faust

Sunday 22 March 2026

15:00 to 18:30

Tuesday 24 March 2026

19:30 to 23:00

Thursday 26 March 2026

19:30 to 23:00

Saturday 28 March 2026

19:00 to 22:30

Monday 30 March 2026

19:30 to 23:00

Location : Opéra Royal

Destination

3 Pl. Léon Gambetta, 78000 Versailles

78000

Versailles

GPS coordinates

Latitude : 48.804798

Longitude : 2.120273

BY CAR
Motorway A13 - Versailles Notre-Dame exit
Motorway 186 - Versailles Centre exit
Free "Place d'armes" parking from 19:00

BY TRAIN

Gare Montparnasse > Gare Versailles Chantiers
Dreux, Mantes-la-Jolie, Rambouillet direction

Gare St. Lazare > Gare Versailles Rive Droite
Rive Droite direction

Paris RER C > Gare Versailles Rive Gauche - Château
Rive Gauche Château direction

Pont de Sèvres - Bus 171 > Versailles Château stop

Event Organizer

Château de Versailles Spectacles

Phone : +33 1 30 83 78 89

"Château de Versailles Spectacles"

Location

Opéra Royal

3 Pl. Léon Gambetta, 78000 Versailles

78000

Versailles

Réservation

Presentation

Opera in five acts with libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on the eponymous legend and Goethe's play, premiered at the Théâtre-Lyrique in 1859.

Since its creation in 1859, Gounod's Faust has been at the pinnacle of French opera. Goethe's text had such a profound impact on the Romantics that Liszt, Berlioz, Gounod and then Boito set it to music. Gounod was twenty years old when he fell in love with this work during his stay at the Prix de Rome in 1839. There is obviously plenty of material here: the hero, in the twilight of his life, wants to poison himself because all science and belief seem futile to him. Doctor Faust calls on the Devil and sells his soul to evil in order to regain his youth, thanks to the diabolical character of Mephisto. What follows is a love as ardent as it is impossible with Marguerite... until death.