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 ...

It helps that three top male singers are on hand. Bryn Terfel and Simon Keenlyside return to the roles they created at the production’s unveiling in 2004, each bringing a diamond-cut intensity born of ...

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 ...

Even with its visions of damnation and redemption, Gounod's FAUST, with libretto by Barbier and Carre, is pretty tame stuff. In the wrong hands, it can be dull as well. Well, you can't accuse the ...

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 ...

Opera Australia's new interpretation of FAUST is a delicious mix of hedonism, debauchery, desire and despair. Based on Sir David McVicar's (Director, Revival Director - Bruno Ravella) staging of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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5.0 out of 5.0 starsAfter a glorious opening night at Glyndebourne, it’s a pleasure to be back at the Royal Opera House for the stunning visual and musical feast that is the all-star 6th revival of ...