I fully realize that for many people, Garnett Bruce’s production of “Faust” at the Washington National Opera, which opened at the Kennedy Center on Saturday night, will be a welcome relief. It’s a ...

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 ...

Whether viewed as a metaphor or a very real entity, the devil has held a morbid fascination for mankind, probably for as long as there has been thought. The impulse to evil in the world and in ...

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 ...

The 1860s French setting mixes panache and musical charm as Faust sells his soul to Méphistophélès and seduces Marguerite Gounod’s Faust is one of those operas – readers may wish to nominate their own ...

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 ...

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 ...