Faust (ballet)

Faust
Choreographer	Jules Perrot
Music	Giacomo Panizza Sir Michael Andrew Costa Niccolò Bajetti
Premiere	12 February 1848 Milan, Italy
Original ballet company	Ballet of the Teatro alla Scala
Characters	Marguerite Mephistophelis Faust Bambo, Queen of the Demons
Genre	Classical ballet
Type	Fantastic ballet

Faust is a ballet in three acts and seven scenes, with choreography and libretto by Jules Perrot and music by Giacomo Panizza, Michael Andrew Costa, and Niccolò Bajetti, first presented by the Ballet of the Teatro alla Scala on 12 February 1848 in Milan, with Fanny Elssler (as Marguerite), Jules Perrot (as Mephistophelis), Effisio Catte (as Faust), and Ekaterina Costantini (as Bambo, Queen of the Demons).