The New York company adapts Gounod’s classic in a production that proves theatrically inventive but musically uneven.

David McVicar's production of Gounod's Faust is 21 years old but even without the stellar cast it has often attracted in the ...

Satan come to me!” The Devil doesn’t so much appear in David McVicar’s Faust as reveal himself to have always been there. We ...

Sara Holdren’s new production for Heartbeat Opera takes its lead from Bulgakov’s Faustian novel “The Master and Margarita.” ...

It is also dramatically original and psychologically brilliant. Mephistopheles appears to a disillusioned Faust and offers to be his servant, revealing to him all “earthly” knowledge.

Francisco Ladrón de Guevara’s arrangement is a little bit country (and a little bit rock and roll, for that matter); it cuts down Gounod’s sizeable Romantic orchestra to a tight group of eight, adding ...

Mephistopheles is a fictional figure rooted in German folklore. The character is most notably associated with German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel Faust. In Faust, the titular ...

Part 1, which was published in 1808, focuses on the bet made between the demon Mephistopheles and God that the former could sway Faust from his righteous path. A subsequent deal with the devil is ...

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