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 ...
Sara Holdren’s new production for Heartbeat Opera takes its lead from Bulgakov’s Faustian novel “The Master and Margarita.” By Joshua Barone The director Sara Holdren has made it pretty clear that she ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Friday night's season-ending staging of Charles Gounod’s “Faust” by the New Orleans Opera Association was a triumph. The singing, acting, conducting, orchestral playing and nearly all of the staging ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Internationally acclaimed Italian choreographer, Mr. Zanella, is a former GNO ...