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 ...

Sara Holdren’s new production for Heartbeat Opera takes its lead from Bulgakov’s Faustian novel “The Master and Margarita.” By Joshua Barone The director Sara Holdren has made it pretty clear that she ...

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 ...

The 1860s French setting mixes panache and musical charm as Faust sells his soul to Méphistophélès and seduces Marguerite Gounod’s Faust is one of those operas – readers may wish to nominate their own ...

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 ...

This media is not yet available. Charles Gounod's opera Roméo et Juliette, Paris 2023, in director Thomas Jolly's second collaboration with the Paris Opera. Elsa Dreisig as Juliette with Benjamin ...

The five-act opera Romeo and Juliet is a French romantic opera masterpiece by Charles-Francois Gounod. [Photo provided to China Daily] Poda, who is known for being one-man band in the opera world, ...