The Castafiore Emerald (French: Les Bijoux de la Castafiore) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums,
Bianca Castafiore, the Milanese Nightingale, was a recurring character in The Adventures of Tintin: the opera diva first appeared in King Ottokar's Sceptre.
The song sung by the Castafiore, The Jewel Song, is the same song sung by Marguerite in Gounod's opera, Faust. We are led to believe that Castafiore is a world-class performer, who would presumably have a large repertoire of material ... and yet, throughout all the Tintin adventures in which she appears, whenever Bianca Castafiore performs in any context, it is invariably the Jewel Song which she sings.
Gounod (1818–1893) was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.
Faust is an opera in five acts based on Goethe's Faust.
Goethe ( 1749–1832) was a German writer.
Goethe ( 1749–1832) was a German writer.
