The Lyric Opera of Chicago would never rebrand Charles Gounod's “Faust” as “John Frame's Faust.” But the California-based artist and production designer warrants top billing as his surreal sculptures ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Faust story” describes a certain type of tale: A man sells his soul to the devil in exchange for youthful beauty, the satisfaction of lustful desires, or earthly happiness. Johann Wolfgang von ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...