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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Faust is a disenchanted scholar, fruitlessly seeking the deepest truth. In ...

David McVicar's 15-year-old production as revived by Bruno Ravella is beginning to date, Royal Opera trad with a few scandalous add-ons and wacky choreography by Michael Keegan-Dolan. Two things are ...

Written by French composer Charles Gounod in 1859, Faust has often been dismissed as a sentimental mix of religion and romance, with a melodramatic plot and excessive emotion. However, in the Lyric ...

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 ...

A new production of the opera "Faust," featuring visual elements by artist John Frame, premiered at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in March and will have its West Coast debut at Portland Opera in June.

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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 ...

Three years ago, Francine Black, artistic director of Berks Opera Company, and her daughter, Tamara Black, the company’s executive director, decided they wanted to present a full production of Charles ...

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On a chilly afternoon earlier this month, in the basement of the Minnesota Opera building, the Angel in White performed while Méphistophélès looked on. Was hell freezing over? Hardly. Natalie Desch, a ...