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 ...

PHOENIX - A Lady Gaga look-alike makes a guest appearance in Arizona Opera's updated take on Gounod's "Faust" this weekend. At the final performance of the show's Phoenix run on Sunday, Gaga strutted ...

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 ...

2 Interview: 'Adele Had Never Written a Song Before She Came To Us': Principal Stuart Worden On The BRIT School Last night was the online premiere of the Royal Opera House's Faust, broadcast for free ...

"Faust" is the 15th century legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil in return for youth and love. Berks Opera Company sets this drama in 21st century Reading, portraying Mephistopheles, the ...

As with Eugene Onegin, there is another production that has not seen the velvety-red walls of the Washington National Opera in a couple of decades: Gounod’s Faust (★★★★). Unlike the modern skein of ...

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 ...

This is the realization of a 30 year old dream, a wish of the young filmmaker to film a modern Faust which finally came to a fulfillment as unpredictable and as absolute as, say, three decades of ...

In the 19th century, Gounod’s Faust was by far the top of the operatic pops. Premiered in Paris in 1859, Covent Garden saw Faust every year up to 1912, and by the late 1930s it had notched up nearly ...