It turns out the music and lyrics of Depeche Mode make an apt companion to French composer Charles Gounod’s opera, “Faust.” Mixed Precipitation blends the moody lyrics of the British synth-rock band ...

When David McVicar’s production of Gounod’s Faust was new in June of this year, the experience was hell in all but the literal sense. McVicar simply didn’t take the work seriously enough, and clearly ...

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 ...

Sara Holdren’s new production for Heartbeat Opera takes its lead from Bulgakov’s Faustian novel “The Master and Margarita.” By Joshua Barone The director Sara Holdren has made it pretty clear that she ...

It seems appropriate that the Royal Opera should start its French-themed season with Gounod’s Faust, perhaps the grandest of all grand operas. Over the coming months we’re being treated to a mixture ...