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 ...

You don't have to update to pack a punch. That's what McVicar's straight-up French Second Empire setting proved immediately. René Pape's Mephistopheles (pictured below) appeared brandishing pen, paper ...

The ancient German legend of Faust, who sold his soul to the Devil, has undergone several dramatic reworkings. In the late 16th century, Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus included some comic scenes ...

FAUST, the classical opera in five acts, is shaken up and given a contemporary twist by Opera North. The original story of Faust as middle-aged scholar is taken from the 19th century and revamped into ...

When will opera directors wise up to the fact that simply translating something into a modern context doesn’t automatically open up resonance or relevance, let alone plausibility? Television audiences ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Praised by both Chopin and Goethe himself, the first Faust opera was not written by one of the author’s German composer peers. In fact, a Polish duke called Antoni Radziwiłł was the one brave enough ...

Despite wishing to end his own life by drinking poison, Faust's deal with the devil has him drinking a potion that transforms him into a young man, with the pleasures of the world at his fingertips.

The Lyric Opera of Chicago would never rebrand Charles Gounod's “Faust” as “John Frame's Faust.” But the California-based artist and production designer warrants top billing as his surreal sculptures ...

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 ...