Gounod's Faust is many things: vaudeville act, sentimental romance, Gothic tragedy, Catholic catechism, in short, a wholly unrealistic but winningly schizophrenic work that should be taken about as ...

It’s one of the most famous tales of a bad boyfriend in Western literature—a lonely scholar called Faust makes a deal with the devil and drags everyone else down with him—but in Sara Holdren’s new ...

Sara Holdren’s new production for Heartbeat Opera takes its lead from Bulgakov’s Faustian novel “The Master and Margarita.” By Joshua Barone The director Sara Holdren has made it pretty clear that she ...

It is not often that a production can be described as stronger on detail than over-arching concept, but that is the case with David McVicar’s 2004 version of Gounods Faust, revived here by Lee ...

Nights (and Afternoons) at the Opera / This is the sixth entry in a series examining the works that the Metropolitan Opera will present through April during its "The Met: Live in HD" series in local ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Would you sell your soul to the devil? It’s been offered up before, we're told in a canon of music and literature, for life, or love, or to play a really mean guitar. In one telling ...

"Faust" is the 15th century legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil in return for youth and love. Berks Opera Company sets this drama in 21st century Reading, portraying Mephistopheles, the ...

LONDON—With varying degrees of success, the English National Opera has been engaging film directors, starting with the late Anthony Minghella, through Penny Woolcock, Des McAnuff and Mike Figgis. But ...

And the Romantic movement in which Berlioz played such a turbulent part is already in its decadence by the time of this operatic Faust's first misadventures, at odds among the turbulent Volk who ...