BERLIOZ Cover of the libretto of "The Damnation of Faust" dramatic legend in four parts and an epilogue by Hector Berlioz; composition for soloists; chorus and orchestra. The libretto was adapted by Berlioz and Almire Gandonnière from Gérard de Nerval's translation of the first part of Goethe's Faust. The first performance was in concert at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on December 6 1846 stage adaptation of Raoul Gunsburg; the Italian version of Ettore Gentiles for the first at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in 1894; Edward Sonzogno publisher; Milan 1906