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 ...
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 ...
Friday night's season-ending staging of Charles Gounod’s “Faust” by the New Orleans Opera Association was a triumph. The singing, acting, conducting, orchestral playing and nearly all of the staging ...
Throughout Charles Gounod’s five-act tour-de-force, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27 and 30 at Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Hopkins inhabited new and evolving visages of Méphistophélès with ...
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 ...
Heartbeat Opera’s radical adaptations of classic titles can soar or fall flat, but one constant has always been music director Dan Schlosberg, whose ingenious maverick arrangements—such as February’s ...