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Le Théâtre

Theater production, Lewiston, 1896

Theater production, Lewiston, 1896

Item 18874 info
Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries

Jean-Baptiste Couture directed and starred in dozens of plays, operettas and operas.

For instance, he had the title role in an ambitious production of Gounod's Faust.

Couture named one of his sons "Faust" in honor of the famous literary character.