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 ...

The twin themes of Science and Morality loom so large in the Faust legend that it comes as no big surprise that the American-born director Des McAnuff should be thinking of and alluding to Robert J ...

The elevator to hell isn't working, and it's making everyone a bit testy. Only the top half of Mephistopheles's body is visible above stage level, the rest stuck on the lift to his demonic lair. His ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Verdi Chorus will kick off its 42nd season with its Fall 2025 Concert Faust – ...

Director Des McAnuff's attempt to marshal this melodrama into revealing truths about Nazism, war crimes and the morality of modern science was always going to be a bit ambitious. Director Des ...

Review: Gounod’s Faust, English National Opera LONDONERS were posed with a devilish choice on Saturday evening: to watch the Pope pontificating in Hyde Park or pop over to the Coliseum to see Faust ...

In James Gibbs’s elegant temple, a programme of top-drawer Haydn and Mozart symphonies interspersed with a brace of Mozart violin concertos might sound like a recipe for low-key polish and politesse.

The Devil is once again prowling the stage of the Detroit Opera House, his eyes peeled for a man so desperate to turn back the clock of his life to the studly glory days of his youth that he'd be ...

It is a tale of two directors at present at English National Opera. We’ve had the company’s season opener — a new production of Gounod’s Faust directed by Broadway darling Des McAnuff — and also a ...

Until Carmen appeared and captivated audiences with its swaggering Hispanic sexiness, Gounod’s Faust was for a mid-19th-century generation the world’s most popular opera. Its genteel yet lubricious ...