Gounod would say that he acquired his vocation with his mother’s milk, for she sang as she suckled him. Signs of an inherited musical gift—his mother, widowed young, supported the family by giving ...

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Among the most popular and influential 19th-century composers, Charles Gounod (1818-1893), whose bicentenary is June 17, was torn throughout his life between the lure of the priesthood and ambition ...

Near Paris's Opéra Garnier stands a patisserie that offers the culinary equivalent of Charles Gounod's Faust. In a religieuse aux roses, a choux pastry cathedral dome topped with pink icing masks ...

Kathryn Lewek, described as “…the reigning Queen of the Night at the Metropolitan Opera…” by Palm Beach Opera General Director James Barbato, stepped in for the role of Juliette in Palm Beach Opera’s ...

With Mark Elder installed as artistic director, Opera Rara continues to burrow away in the byways of the 19th-century French and Italian repertoires, and its latest offering is a slight but charming ...

Marguerite is surely the most innocent of the main characters in Faust. But even she is tempted by the cask of gems that Mephistopheles slyly places outside her door. Finding them, she launches into ...

Gounod's Faust was the most popular French opera of the 19th century, but Gounod's personal life was at least as colourful as his stage works... Gounod is an intriguing fellow, an endearing mix of the ...

There's the distant sound of the bottoms of barrels being scraped in this latest addition to Hyperion's romantic piano concerto series. The pedal piano was briefly fashionable in the middle decades of ...

Like a nearly forgotten painting sitting in storage, George Balanchine’s ballet “Gounod Symphony” hasn’t been danced by a professional company since 1993. But former New York City Ballet star Suzanne ...