Given the long history and once preeminent position that French opera once held in New Orleans, it is unfortunate that there seems to be little tolerance among contemporary audiences for anything save ...
In its ninth season, BOF will present Charles Gounod’s 1859 Mephistophelian tour-de-force “Faust,” which chronicles its title character’s deal with the devil for youth and love. Sun-Ly Pierce, the ...
The production runs for two performances on March 9th and 10th at the Temple of Music and Art in Tucson AZ. Arizona Opera has revived Gounod’s ROMEO ET JULIETTE in what is, by all measures, a triumph ...
Selling his soul to the devil for eternal youth is Faust’s – inevitably risky – gamble. By joining forces with the diabolical Mephistopheles, the elderly scholar recovers a youthfulness that allows ...