Defictionalization: Up to the 18th century, shady booksellers made a buck with weird "grimoires" that supposedly were written by Faust, or contained his "real" magic spells.
Charles Gounod's opera:
All-Star Cast: As Faust, Méphistophélès, and Marguerite...
1949, conducted by Wilfrid Pelletier: Giuseppe Di Stephano, Italo Tajo, Dorothy Kirsten
1953, conducted by André Cluytens: Nicolai Gedda, Boris Christoff, Victoria de los Ángeles
1960, conducted by Armando La Rosa Parodi: Eugenio Fernandi, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Renata Scotto
1966, conducted by Richard Bonynge: Franco Corelli, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Joan Sutherland
1973, conducted by Paul Ethuin: Alfredo Kraus, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Renata Scotto
1978, conducted by Georges Prêtre: Plácido Domingo, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Mirella Freni
1985, conducted by Erich Binder: Francisco Araiza, Ruggero Raimondi, Gabriela Benacková
1986, conducted by Colin Davis: Francisco Araiza, Yevgeny Nesterenko, Kiri Te Kanawa
2009, conducted by Bertrand de Billy: Piotr Beczala, Kwangchul Youn, Soile Isokoski
