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It’s a dark and dazzling work, Gounod’s Faust and a profoundly satisfying experience when it’s done well. The Opera Australia version opening in Sydney next month is directed by Britain’s Sir David ...

In the first scene of the opera "Mefistofele," 138 singers, dancers, children and extras cram the stage, in matching white robes and matching masks. The spectacle lasts 25 minutes, and on opening ...

SAN FRANCISCO — “Short-term gain; long-term pain” — a few economists might be bandying about that pithy phrase these days. But these words were also irreverently buzzing in my brain during San ...

Appearances mattered almost as much as sound. At Glyndebourne Festival, rising young mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught was at the centre of a storm over whether she looked sufficiently boy-shaped to play ...

The statue of Mephistopheles and Faust outside Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig where a key scene in the opera takes place Another adaptation, this time by the Frenchman, Hector Berlioz, of one of ...