The Telegraph — There are intimittent cheap thrills in this rock and roll production. Rating: * * * more info

Guardian Music — Young Vic, LondonIceland may be short of money but it's not lacking in artistic invention. As anyone who has seen Vesturport Theatre Company's Romeo and Juliet, Woyzeck and Metamorphosis will know, they are amongst the world's most dazzling troupes. ... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, London; Coliseum, London; Welsh National Opera, CardiffLike Niobe, all tears. Hamlet managed to say in four words what Agostino Steffani took four hours to expound. Niobe was Queen of Thebes, as related in Ovid, whose children die ... more info

ContactMusic — Goth rocker NICK CAVE has penned the score for actor GISLI ORN GAROARSSON's ambitious new stage adaptation of FAUST.Cave's latest musical creation will be heard when... more info

NME — Play kicks off in London in tandem with Aussie singer's Grinderman tour more info

Guardian Music — 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 manAct I: Faust's study Faust: I can't sleep / My prostate's playing up / And my back's giving me gyp / Ever... more info

Guardian Music — Robert Lepage's audacious hi-tech production of Wagner's Ring cycle in New York will be opera to rememberRobert Lepage has had a busy summer. Just weeks after the success of his Nightingale and Other Fables at the Aix-en-Provence festival, the Canadi... more info

Guardian Music — Symphony Hall, BirminghamAs opening statements go, few are as emphatic as Mahler's Eighth Symphony: it began the Proms in July (commemorating the 150th anniversary of his birth) and, in a performance marking a century – almost to the day – since ... more info

Guardian Music — Coliseum, LondonGiven the director's successful background in musicals and spoken theatre, it might have been expected that Des McAnuff's new production for English National Opera of Gounod's Victorian staple would attempt to maximise the score's man... more info

The Telegraph — Director Des McAnuff makes Faust an elderly muclear physicist working after Hiroshima. Rating: * * * * more info