GREAT BARRINGTON — Would you sell your soul to the devil? It’s been offered up before, we're told in a canon of music and literature, for life, or love, or to play a really mean guitar. In one telling ...

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, ...

Few operas have enjoyed such an enviable fate as Gounod's Faust. Well received at its premiere, followed by international success, which still makes it the most performed French opera in the world ...

Berks Opera Company is intent on making a difference in the community by being a bridge between the arts and social commentary to relevant issues. Taking a major step toward achieving that goal is its ...

In the 19th century, Gounod’s Faust was by far the top of the operatic pops. Premiered in Paris in 1859, Covent Garden saw Faust every year up to 1912, and by the late 1930s it had notched up nearly ...

Jennifer Davis's Marguerite and Duke Kim's Faust pull out all the vocal stops in the final scene of Gounod's opera If Nicholas Brownlee is more bass-baritone than cavernous bass as the very devil, he ...