Faust is a grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von ...

Whether viewed as a metaphor or a very real entity, the devil has held a morbid fascination for mankind, probably for as long as there has been thought. The impulse to evil in the world and in ...

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 ...

David McVicar's 15-year-old production as revived by Bruno Ravella is beginning to date, Royal Opera trad with a few scandalous add-ons and wacky choreography by Michael Keegan-Dolan. Two things are ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marguerite is surely the most innocent of the main characters in Faust. But even she is tempted by the cask of gems that Mephistopheles slyly places outside her door. Finding them, she launches into ...

A trade with the Devil. The ageing Faust sells his soul for another lifetime in which to live and love. But the Devil always wins. Marguerite, the object of Faust's desire, is borne to heaven. Faust's ...