El Fausto criollo

In 1866, Argentinian politician and writer Ernesto del Campo had a chance to see a performance of Charles Gounod's opera Faust in Buenos Aires. The experience inspired him to write a tale called El Fausto criollo (The Creole Faust), which featured a gaucho telling a friend about watching a performance of Faust in Buenos Aires. The gaucho in del Campo's tale is plainly both capt...