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 ...

The New Orleans Opera Association closes out its 2016-17 season this weekend with Friday evening and Sunday afternoon performances of Charles Gounod’s classic 1859 opera “Faust.” Based on Johann ...

New Camerata Opera (NCO) announces details for a double bill of French one-act operas - Lili Boulanger's Faust et Hélène and Maurice Ravel's L'heure espagnole - from September 16 through September 24, ...

Erwin Schrott has withdrawn from the performances of Faust on 2, 6 and 10 June for personal reasons. The role of Méphistophélès will be performed on these dates by Ildebrando D'Arcangelo. Schrott will ...

Gounod's most famous opera, "Faust" tells the story, based on Goethe's epic poem, of the old philosopher who is made young again by trading his soul to Mephistopheles so that he may seduce the fair ...

Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. On a chilly afternoon earlier this month, in the basement of the Minnesota Opera building, the Angel in White performed ...

There are plenty of examples in music, literature, even People magazine, of people willing to dance with the devil, shall we say, to get what they want. The greatest is the German poet Goethe’s ...

Throughout Charles Gounod’s five-act tour-de-force, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27 and 30 at Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Hopkins inhabited new and evolving visages of Méphistophélès with ...

You have to do opera for the love of it. That is how expensive it is. Tim Kennedy, who leads Buffalo Opera Unlimited, laughs about that. "I don't know, the first word that comes to mind is addiction," ...