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 ...

French composer Charles Gounod struggled to get into the inner circle at Paris Opera, but his first attempts didn’t set any hearts afire, although the young man showed promise, as critics said, and ...

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 ...

David McVicar's production of Gounod's Faust is 21 years old but even without the stellar cast it has often attracted in the past, it still has the power to thrill an audience. The story of Faust ...