World Premiere: Opéra-Comique, Paris, 1846. Berlioz’s magnificent exploration of the Faust legend is a unique operatic journey. The visionary French composer was inspired by a bold translation of ...
Three years ago, Francine Black, artistic director of Berks Opera Company, and her daughter, Tamara Black, the company’s executive director, decided they wanted to present a full production of Charles ...
In its ninth season, BOF will present Charles Gounod’s 1859 Mephistophelian tour-de-force “Faust,” which chronicles its title character’s deal with the devil for youth and love. Sun-Ly Pierce, the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
It is often said that opera is the greatest art form, since it incorporates all of the other art forms. But even in productions I have witnessed in some of the world’s great opera houses, I’ve never ...
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