List of compositions by Charles Gounod

• Sapho (Opera in 3 acts, premiered 16 April 1851 at Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opera, revised to 2 acts on 26 July 1858, and revised again to 4 acts at the Palais Garnier on 2 April 1884). Libretto by Émile Augier after the life of the poet Sappho of Lesbos. The creation of the work was given an impetus by, and provided a central role for, the mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot. • La nonne sanglante (The Bloody Nun) (Opera in 5 acts, premiered 18 October 1854 at the Salle Le Peletier). The libretto was by Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne, after an episode in The Monk, a gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis. • Le médecin malgré lui (The Doctor in spite of himself) (Opéra comique in three acts, premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique on 15 January 1858). Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after Molière's play of the same name. • Faust (Opera in five acts, premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique on 19 March 1859; the opera was revised with a ballet being added and spoken dialogue replaced by sung recitative for performances at the Salle Le Peletier in 1869). The libretto was by Barbier and Carré, from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One. • Philémon et Baucis (Opera in three acts, first performed at the Théâtre Lyrique on 18 February 1860. Gounod revised this for a definitive 2-act version at the Opéra-Comique on 16 May 1876). Libretto by Barbier and Carré, after the tale of Baucis and Philemon as told by Jean de La Fontaine, derived in turn from Ovid's Metamorphoses. • La colombe (The Dove) (Opéra comique premiered in a one-act version at the Theater der Stadt in Baden-Baden on 3 August 1860, revised on 7 June 1866 by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart in Paris in an expanded two-act version). Libretto by Barbier and Carré based on the poem Le Faucon by La Fontaine. • La reine de Saba (The Queen of Sheba) (Grand opera in four or five acts, premiered at the Salle Le Peletier by the Paris Opera on 28 February 1862. Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré inspired by Gérard de Nerval's La Reine de Saba, in his collection of travel writing, Le voyage en Orient. • Mireille (Opera in five acts, premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique on 19 March 1864). Libretto by Michel Carré after Frédéric Mistral's poem Mirèio. • Roméo et Juliette (Opera in five acts, first performed at the Théâtre Lyrique on 27 April 1867. A ballet was added for its transfer to the Paris Opera on 28 November 1888). Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. • Cinq-Mars (Opera in four acts, initially performed at the Opéra-Comique on 5 April 1877). Libretto by and Louis Gallet loosely adapted from Alfred de Vigny's historical novel based on the life of Louis XIII's favourite the Marquis of Cinq-Mars, who conspired against Louis' First Minister, Cardinal Richelieu. • Maître Pierre (Master Peter) (Uncompleted project for an opera started in 1877, abandoned in 1878. The music was later arranged by the composer as a Suite dramatique en quatre parties). The libretto was by Louis Gallet, after the life of Peter Abelard, the twelfth century scholar-philosopher and lover of Héloïse. • Polyeucte (Opera in five acts. Originally intended for the Salle Le Peletier, the premiere was delayed when that theatre was destroyed by fire in 1873. The work eventually premiered in the new Palais Garnier on 7 October 1878). The libretto was by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, after the play of the same name (1643) by Pierre Corneille, about Saint Polyeuctus, an early Roman martyr in Armenia. • Le tribut de Zamora (Grand opera in four acts, premiere at the Paris Opera's Palais Garnier on 1 April 1881). The libretto by Adolphe d'Ennery and Jules Brésil was set in Moorish Spain shortly after the Battle of Zamora in 939 CE. == Oratorios ==