5.0 out of 5.0 starsAfter a glorious opening night at Glyndebourne, it’s a pleasure to be back at the Royal Opera House for the stunning visual and musical feast that is the all-star 6th revival of ...

Throughout Charles Gounod’s five-act tour-de-force, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27 and 30 at Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Hopkins inhabited new and evolving visages of Méphistophélès with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Few operas have enjoyed such an enviable fate as Gounod's Faust. Well received at its premiere, followed by international success, which still makes it the most performed French opera in the world ...

First seen in 2004, McVicar’s staging still has all the illicit sheen and lure of Marguerite’s jewels. In an era of austerity (even at the Royal Opera) this kind of old-school, expensive theatricality ...

It turns out the music and lyrics of Depeche Mode make an apt companion to French composer Charles Gounod’s opera, “Faust.” Mixed Precipitation blends the moody lyrics of the British synth-rock band ...