Praised by both Chopin and Goethe himself, the first Faust opera was not written by one of the author’s German composer peers. In fact, a Polish duke called Antoni Radziwiłł was the one brave enough ...

French composer Charles Goudnod’s opera “Faust,” which premiered in the mid-19th century in Paris, is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. The Metropolitan Opera in New York City ...

Written by French composer Charles Gounod in 1859, Faust has often been dismissed as a sentimental mix of religion and romance, with a melodramatic plot and excessive emotion. However, in the Lyric ...

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 ...

Isolated from his community by his intellectual arrogance Faust (Peter Auty) strikes a bargain with the demon Mephistopheles (James Creeswell). But demons cheat and the price of the bargain is paid by ...

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 ...

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 ...