Bryn Terfel is used to making a dramatic impact, but it is usually by his own merits. When Terfel, one of the world's leading bass-baritones, sang in The Damnation of Faust with Sir Andrew Davis at ...

He may have sympathy for the devil, but when it comes to love he doesn't have a chance in hell. John Crace decodes the destiny of a desperate man Faust: I can't sleep / My prostate's playing up / And ...

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 ...

“The unconcealed and palpable influence of the devil on an important part of contemporary literature is one of the significant phenomena of the history of our time.” This strange note was written in ...

As we reach the end of the tragedy of the First Part of Faust and look back, we seem to have come, with Mephistopheles, upon that midway height where we can see only with astonishment “ how Mammon in ...

Liesl/Homunculus/Ensemble Off-Broadway Faust, Parts I & II 2006 Martha/Galatea/Ensemble Off-Broadway Faust, Parts I & II 2006 Mephistopheles Off-Broadway Faust, Parts I & II 2006 ...

WE have seen in a former paper the care with which Goethe has pointed out the way to discover the answer to the question, What is Faust ? In his letters he returns to the subject again and again, ...