On the BOF mainstage this year is a new production of Charles Gounod's FAUST, the story of tragedy and redemption that stands at the summit of French romantic opera. Surging with memorable and ...

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 ...

On a chilly afternoon earlier this month, in the basement of the Minnesota Opera building, the Angel in White performed while Méphistophélès looked on. Was hell freezing over? Hardly. Natalie Desch, a ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Would you sell your soul to the devil? It’s been offered up before, we're told in a canon of music and literature, for life, or love, or to play a really mean guitar. In one telling ...

One of opera’s renowned “bad boys” is back. “I’ve always enjoyed playing villains,” bass-baritone John Relyea said. He returns to Washington Concert Opera to explore in depth his musical relationship ...

It turns out the music and lyrics of Depeche Mode make an apt companion to French composer Charles Gounod’s opera, “Faust.” Mixed Precipitation blends the moody lyrics of the British synth-rock band ...

Berks Opera Company is intent on making a difference in the community by being a bridge between the arts and social commentary to relevant issues. Taking a major step toward achieving that goal is its ...

Few operas have enjoyed such an enviable fate as Gounod's Faust. Well received at its premiere, followed by international success, which still makes it the most performed French opera in the world ...

Isolated from his community by his intellectual arrogance Faust (Peter Auty) strikes a bargain with the demon Mephistopheles (James Creeswell). But demons cheat and the price of the bargain is paid by ...