5.0 out of 5.0 starsAfter a glorious opening night at Glyndebourne, it’s a pleasure to be back at the Royal Opera House for the stunning visual and musical feast that is the all-star 6th revival of ...

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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 ...

Some operas _ perhaps most operas _ take a while to get into theatrical high gear, but the payoff can be worth the wait. Gounod's Faust, for example, drowses along during the first couple of hours at ...

Until Carmen appeared and captivated audiences with its swaggering Hispanic sexiness, Gounod’s Faust was for a mid-19th-century generation the world’s most popular opera. Its genteel yet lubricious ...

With Artistic Director Antony Walker at the helm, the Washington Concert Opera (WCO) opened its 2009-10 season Sunday evening at Lisner Auditorium with a riveting performance of Charles Gounod’s ...

It's not every day that some of the most exciting voices in opera come to our shores but thankfully no souls had to be sold for the Irish National Opera's new production of 'Faust'. And it will be a ...

With Jonas Kaufmann in the title role, René Pape as the devil, and Marina Poplavskaya as Marguerite, Gounod’s classic retelling of the Faust legend couldn’t be better served. Tony Award-winning ...