Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Faust is a disenchanted scholar, fruitlessly seeking the deepest truth. In ...

David McVicar's 15-year-old production as revived by Bruno Ravella is beginning to date, Royal Opera trad with a few scandalous add-ons and wacky choreography by Michael Keegan-Dolan. Two things are ...

There are myriad tales of people making deals with the devil, but they all share similar endings (spoiler alert: bad things happen). Although the outcomes are predictable, we’re still drawn to these ...

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 ...

On a chilly afternoon earlier this month, in the basement of the Minnesota Opera building, the Angel in White performed while Méphistophélès looked on. Was hell freezing over? Hardly. Natalie Desch, a ...

It’s not difficult to reimagine the classic “Faust,” the quintessential story of man making a bargain with the devil, in contemporary times. Director Lileana Blain-Cruz had only to look at modern ...

A new production of the opera "Faust," featuring visual elements by artist John Frame, premiered at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in March and will have its West Coast debut at Portland Opera in June.

It is not often that a production can be described as stronger on detail than over-arching concept, but that is the case with David McVicar’s 2004 version of Gounods Faust, revived here by Lee ...

You have to give the devil — and the angel — their due. Yes, a fellow named Faust gives Charles Gounod’s best-known opera its name, and it is this character who sets the story in motion, with his ...