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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Written by French composer Charles Gounod in 1859, Faust has often been dismissed as a sentimental mix of religion and romance, with a melodramatic plot and excessive emotion. However, in the Lyric ...

Heartbeat Opera’s radical adaptations of classic titles can soar or fall flat, but one constant has always been music director Dan Schlosberg, whose ingenious maverick arrangements—such as February’s ...

Faust opens in the laboratory of a wizened alchemist. "Rien!" Faust yells at the opera's start ("it's useless!"). The laboratory is dark and full of angles, curves and corners. Attempts to find solace ...