It’s not difficult to reimagine the classic “Faust,” the quintessential story of man making a bargain with the devil, in contemporary times. Director Lileana Blain-Cruz had only to look at modern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opera Naples, one of Naples' leading performing arts organizations, will be featuring "Faust" (Teatro Real) with Piotr Beczala during its summer film series of classic European operas, HD at Opera ...

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 ...

The Ducks came close again. In No. 2 Oregon acrobatics and tumbling’s (5-2) second loss of the season to No. 1 Baylor University (9-0),... Ghosts don’t often haunt teams’ home mats. But for Oregon ...

The New Orleans Opera Association closes out its 2016-17 season this weekend with Friday evening and Sunday afternoon performances of Charles Gounod’s classic 1859 opera “Faust.” Based on Johann ...

When it comes to presenting top-quality art, Detroit Opera has stood among giants the last two seasons, consistently offering inventive, thoughtful productions while keeping true to the spirit of the ...

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 ...

New Camerata Opera (NCO) announces details for a double bill of French one-act operas - Lili Boulanger's Faust et Hélène and Maurice Ravel's L'heure espagnole - from September 16 through September 24, ...

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 ...