It helps that three top male singers are on hand. Bryn Terfel and Simon Keenlyside return to the roles they created at the production’s unveiling in 2004, each bringing a diamond-cut intensity born of ...

This, after all, is his playground, not the rutting crowds of the Cabaret l’Enfer, the riotous drinkers, brawlers and hypocrites in the streets, or – in the screw-turning final reveal – the audience ...

WhatsOnStage delved into the rehearsal room for the Royal Opera House’s staging of Faust, opening later this week. Directed by David McVicar, the production returns following its last run in 2019. Set ...

Come for the presents. Stay for the baggage.

LONDON (Reuters) - London's Royal Opera House launched its cinema season on Thursday, part of a drive to attract people to a notoriously exclusive art form made less accessible by Britain's economic ...

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 ...

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 ...