Gounod's "Faust" is a combination of alluring music - including such hits as Marguerite's "Jewel Song" - and some of the clunkiest, cheesiest dramaturgy in the operatic repertoire. The response from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ran Arthur Braun and Rob Kearley’s updating is broadly contemporary but full of anachronistic details – the chorus could pass for Mad Men extras, though gazing at iPads and occasionally filming ...

When Charles Gounod’s opera “Faust” was placed on Berks Opera Company’s schedule for this summer, the company’s artistic director, Francine Black, and executive director, Tamara Black, decided to go ...

French composer Charles Goudnod’s opera “Faust,” which premiered in the mid-19th century in Paris, is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. The Metropolitan Opera in New York City ...

Days before the Israeli Opera’s March 5 opening of “Faust,” Stefano Poda was feeling pleased. The Italian director, designer and choreographer had been in Tel Aviv for a month, perfecting this ...

Christophe Rousset proves this recently rediscovered score by the 19th-century female composer deserves a much wider audience Born in 1805, Louise Bertin was a younger contemporary of Berlioz, and, ...