Atlanta Opera's "Faust" will be performed March 8, 11, 14, and 16 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. Tickets range from $26 to $133. For information call 1-800-35-Opera, or go to the company's ...

Stage director Kevin Newbury has devised a Faustian bargain of his own for the new production of Gounod’s “Faust” that is closing Lyric Opera’s mainstage season at the Lyric Opera House. His cinematic ...

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 ...

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Faust intends to win his heart’s desires, even if it costs him his soul: led into temptation by the charming Méphistophélès, the ageing academic swaps moral restraint for a salacious journey through ...

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 ...

Houston Grand Opera presents Charles Gounod’s Faust with tenor Michael Fabiano making his Houston debut in the title role. Michael Fabiano in the Opera Australia production of Faust. The German legend ...

Marguerite is surely the most innocent of the main characters in Faust. But even she is tempted by the cask of gems that Mephistopheles slyly places outside her door. Finding them, she launches into ...

Gounod’s erotically-charged Faust has thrilled audiences since its Paris premiere in 1859. The mingling of sex, sin and religion in the legend of the philosopher who sells his soul to the Devil is ...

“This is my domain”, says Méphistophéles, and suddenly we his audience are behind the footlights looking into an auditorium just like ours. It isn’t a particular original idea casting the devil as ...