The cast of Pretty Yende, John Relyea and Matthew Polenzani, along with the HGO Chorus, proved to be up to the vocal task.

(ANSA) - ROME, 20 OTT - The premiere of Gounod's Faust at La Scala scheduled for Tuesday night has had to be cancelled due to a workers' strike at the storied Milanese opera house. "Due to a strike ...

Leave it to the French to portray Goethe’s dastardly King of Hell as a jaunty 16th-century boulevardier, a bon vivant in red ...

The impression given by this entertaining and profound production is that Gounod is truly the flip side of Offenbach. And we ...

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 ...

“A Faust story” describes a certain type of tale: A man sells his soul to the devil in exchange for youthful beauty, the satisfaction of lustful desires, or earthly happiness. Johann Wolfgang von ...

Gounod’s erotically-charged Faust has thrilled audiences since its Paris premiere in 1859. The mingling of sex, sin and religion in the legend of the philosopher who sells his soul to the Devil is ...