In anyone’s analysis of the most popular operas of all time, Gounod’s Faust would have to rank high. Marguerite’s “Jewel Song” and the broad aria sung by her brother, Valentin, as he goes off to war ...
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The Devil is once again prowling the stage of the Detroit Opera House, his eyes peeled for a man so desperate to turn back the clock of his life to the studly glory days of his youth that he'd be ...
Houston Grand Opera presents Charles Gounod’s Faust with tenor Michael Fabiano making his Houston debut in the title role. Michael Fabiano in the Opera Australia production of Faust. The German legend ...
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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 ...
Marguerite is surely the most innocent of the main characters in Faust. But even she is tempted by the cask of gems that Mephistopheles slyly places outside her door. Finding them, she launches into ...
This is a mostly well-planned and executed recital, mixing favourites by both composers with extracts from operas that have remained rarities, even with the increased interest in late 19th-century ...