Faust by Charles Gounod comes to Opéra Bastille next month. Performances will run from 26 September to 18 October 2024. Selling his soul to the devil for eternal youth is Faust’s – inevitably risky – ...
The emblematic French opera, one of its greatest successes and, at the same time, in a way, its memory. Gounod recalled having the book by Goethe by his side throughout his youth, even in the gardens ...