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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has pulled out of a mostly sold-out production in April of Gounod's opera "Faust" at the Royal Opera House in London, saying that "the role is not ...

On a new production of Verdi’s La forza del destino and a revival of Gounod’s Faust at the Royal Opera House. The talk of London’s opera season has been of little other than a new production, by the ...

New London’s Connecticut Lyric Opera and Hartford’s Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra join forces to stage Gounod’s “Faust” in New Britain Friday night at 8. Goethe’s classic story of an aged ...

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 ...

Singer Anna Netrebko performs on stage during a dress rehearsal of Giacomo Puccini's opera "La Boheme" in Salzburg July 28, 2012. REUTERS/Herwig Prammer By Michael Roddy LONDON (Reuters) - Russian ...