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 ...
Tickets: Wheeler Opera House and Harris Concert Hall box offices; http://www.aspenmusicfestival.com Over the course of the Aspen Music Festival’s summer season ...
Throughout Charles Gounod’s five-act tour-de-force, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27 and 30 at Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Hopkins inhabited new and evolving visages of Méphistophélès with ...
Glorious sunshine in the incomparable gardens, excellent food and company, and a stunning fireworks display to bring the evening to a close, marking the 25 th year of the new theatre. What more could ...
Celebrating its sixth revival, David McVicar’s critically acclaimed production of Faust is a spectacular success with stunning sets and costumes, a magnificent cast, and some of Gounod’s greatest ...
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — Joshua Blue is made for French Romantic opera. The tenor’s ringing bell of a voice softened the consonants and enveloped the vowels in ways no other language would allow, ...
Gounod's Faust is many things: vaudeville act, sentimental romance, Gothic tragedy, Catholic catechism, in short, a wholly unrealistic but winningly schizophrenic work that should be taken about as ...
Last weeks ‘live’ relay of Rodelinda had some great singing and musical direction, but little in the way of real drama or style – Saturday evening’s Faust, in complete contrast, had it all. A vivid, ...