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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Berks Opera Company is intent on making a difference in the community by being a bridge between the arts and social commentary to relevant issues. Taking a major step toward achieving that goal is its ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — Joshua Blue is made for French Romantic opera. The tenor’s ringing bell of a voice softened the consonants and enveloped the vowels in ways no other language would allow, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The old, suicide-bent Faust’s crisis of scientific knowledge leaving a religious void causes Furness to set the action in a late 19 th century industrial town, complete with designer Francis ...

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 ...