Celebrating its sixth revival, David McVicar’s critically acclaimed production of Faust is a spectacular success with stunning sets and costumes, a magnificent cast, and some of Gounod’s greatest ...

Faust is a disenchanted scholar, fruitlessly seeking the deepest truth. In exchange for his soul, the devil promises him a life of pleasure, culminating in one perfectly happy moment. This unlikely ...

Though Gounod’s Faust is one of the 20 most performed operas in the United States, a full production of the work is not often staged. With elaborate sets and costuming and the ballet of Act V, houses ...

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 ...

Replacing an afflicted Irina Lungu - who in turn had replaced, at longer notice, Diana Damrau - German soprano Mandy Fredrich stepped off a plane at 4.45pm, we were told - see her whizz through ...

Jennifer Davis's Marguerite and Duke Kim's Faust pull out all the vocal stops in the final scene of Gounod's opera If Nicholas Brownlee is more bass-baritone than cavernous bass as the very devil, he ...

Heartbeat Opera’s radical adaptations of classic titles can soar or fall flat, but one constant has always been music director Dan Schlosberg, whose ingenious maverick arrangements—such as February’s ...

Friday night's season-ending staging of Charles Gounod’s “Faust” by the New Orleans Opera Association was a triumph. The singing, acting, conducting, orchestral playing and nearly all of the staging ...