I have many hobbies. I love reading most,” Chinese President Xi Jinping once said. For Xi, reading is more than a personal ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. It began with Beethoven. Bright yellow T-shirts reading, in raspberry type, “¡Bienvenido Gustavo!” marked Gustavo ...

Published in 1947, Doctor Faustus is an allegorical novel that reworks the classic Faust myth that had inspired Christopher Marlowe and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Mann repurposed the story of Faust ...

Once upon a time, Europeans looked up to their writers and musicians as potential saints who could share through their “great works” their deeper perception of human destiny. To this day, we call that ...

Having recently completed his Huit scènes de Faust, Berlioz was still much possessed by Part I of Goethe’s masterpiece when, on the eve of the premiere of the Symphonie fantastique (5 December 1830), ...

The Verdi Chorus will kick off its 42nd season with "Faust – Berlioz, Gounod and Boito," featuring operatic sequences from three renowned composers' interpretations of Goethe's legendary tale. The ...

Experience the exhilarating desperation of a man who made a bargain with the Devil and encounters a love doomed to fail in this rock opera adaptation of Goethe’s ‘Faust.’ In this Philippine adaptation ...

The Verdi Chorus (pictured) remains the only choral group in Southern California that focuses primarily on the dramatic and diverse music for opera chorus, and will be aided in this endeavor by three ...

Lyrical Media has brought on The North Road Company exec Jonathan Faust as its new chief financial officer. In his position, Faust will oversee Lyrical’s financing workflow across film, television, ...

The Verdi Chorus is set to launch its 2025-26 season with a performance of scenes from “Faust.” The concert will feature music by Berlioz, Gounod, and Boito with such soloists as Jessica ...

Emerson called him “the greatest writer who ever lived.” Claudel considered him a “great solemn ass.” Jung pronounced him “a prophet.” Evelyn Waugh dismissed him as a “wayward dabbler in philosophy.” ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Since it first premiered in 1926, F.W. Murnau’s “Faust” has been lauded as one of the greatest silent films ever made. And in the century that’s followed, striking a deal with the ...