Faust intends to win his heart’s desires, even if it costs him his soul: led into temptation by the charming Méphistophélès, the ageing academic swaps moral restraint for a salacious journey through ...

Atlanta Opera's "Faust" will be performed March 8, 11, 14, and 16 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. Tickets range from $26 to $133. For information call 1-800-35-Opera, or go to the company's ...

Replacing an afflicted Irina Lungu - who in turn had replaced, at longer notice, Diana Damrau - German soprano Mandy Fredrich stepped off a plane at 4.45pm, we were told - see her whizz through ...

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 ...

In this era of David Lynch nightmares, Charles Gounod’s “Faust” is a problematic opera. For modern sensibilities, its treatment of a desperate man’s deal with the devil can seem frivolous and dated.

Whether viewed as a metaphor or a very real entity, the devil has held a morbid fascination for mankind, probably for as long as there has been thought. The impulse to evil in the world and in ...

Faust is a grand opera in five acts. The music was composed by Charles Gounod. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. The libretto was based on Carré's play Faust et ...

The 1860s French setting mixes panache and musical charm as Faust sells his soul to Méphistophélès and seduces Marguerite Gounod’s Faust is one of those operas – readers may wish to nominate their own ...

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Stage director Kevin Newbury has devised a Faustian bargain of his own for the new production of Gounod’s “Faust” that is closing Lyric Opera’s mainstage season at the Lyric Opera House. His cinematic ...

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