Whether viewed as a metaphor or a very real entity, the devil has held a morbid fascination for mankind, probably for as long as there has been thought. The impulse to evil in the world and in ...

The love story that will last generations comes to life as Capitol City Opera Company (CCOC), a 501(c)3 non-profit professional opera company, opens its 37th season with their first full-staged French ...

Charles Gounod's "Faust," which closes Michigan Opera Theatre's spring season, certainly remains part of the standard operatic repertoire. But things sure ain't what they used to be. The 1859 work — a ...

3 Beth Leavel, Matt Doyle, and More Will Lead WHEN PLAYWRIGHTS KILL in Boston "Gounod is rightly viewed as the creator of the genre of lyric opera," explains Gil Rose, Odyssey Opera's Artistic and ...

The five-act opera Romeo and Juliet is a French romantic opera masterpiece by Charles-Francois Gounod. [Photo provided to China Daily] The National Centre for the Performing Arts has invited Italian ...

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 ...

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Near Paris's Opéra Garnier stands a patisserie that offers the culinary equivalent of Charles Gounod's Faust. In a religieuse aux roses, a choux pastry cathedral dome topped with pink icing masks ...

Syracuse Opera's "Romeo & Juliet" is the company's second production of the 2008-09 season -- Friday night's performance felt like the season premiere. Director of Music Douglas Kinney Frost made his ...