DOMINIQUE ALONZO | MARGUERITE

Marguerite, identifiable by her medieval dress, her pious disposition, and holding a daisy, her namesake (the English translation of the French flower name marguerite) is derived from librettist Michael Carré's Faust et Marguerite, a play based on Goethe's famed work Faust. She was used by the devil Méphistophéles to tempt Dr. Faust and lead him astray. 

Faust et Marguerite was adapted to an opera by Charles Gounod, and debuted at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris in 1859. Marguerite was played by the renowned French operatic soprano Marie Miolan-Carvalho (1827-1895). This was the first opera to be performed at New York's Metropolitan Opera when it opened in 1883.