One of his last successful operas was based on a poem by Fr??ic Mistral, while his third opera was based on a play by Moli?e.  In addition to Mireille and The Doctor In Spite of Himself, he wrote ten other operas, the first of which was written at the request of Turgenev's mistress Pauline Viardot.  He devoted much of his career to religious works, including a number of masses and the oratorios Redemption and Mors et Vita, but is best known for an opera which includes the "Soldiers' Chorus" and the "Jewel Song."  FTP, name this French composer of such operas as Sapho, Romeo and Juliet, and an 1859 work centering on the love of Mauguerite for its title character, Faus
One of his last successful operas was based on a poem by Fr??ic Mistral, while his third opera was based on a play by Moli?e.  In addition to Mireille and The Doctor In Spite of Himself, he wrote ten other operas, the first of which was written at the request of Turgenev's mistress Pauline Viardot.  He devoted much of his career to religious works, including a number of masses and the oratorios Redemption and Mors et Vita, but is best known for an opera which includes the "Soldiers' Chorus" and the "Jewel Song."  FTP, name this French composer of such operas as Sapho, Romeo and Juliet, and an 1859 work centering on the love of Mauguerite for its title character, Faust.
One of his last successful operas was based on a poem by Fr??ic Mistral, while his third opera was based on a play by Moli?e.  
Charles Gounod