ContactMusic — Opera singer Wendy White has been released from hospital after falling onstage during a performance of Faust in New York on Saturday night 17Dec11 The mezzo-soprano was injured after plummeting about eight feet 2 4 metres from a platform to the stage... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Flavorwire creates a literary mixtape for Faust. The Huffington Post interviews author David Mitchell about his desert island books. The List of Online Year-End 2011 Music Lists was updated yesterday with 40 lists added to the master aggregation incl... more info

Guardian Music — Manager Peter Gelb is leading the way in attracting a new, younger audience to New York's Metropolitan Opera, but at what cost?In Peter Gelb's office at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, there's a screen that's flush with the wall so it resembles a ... more info

Guardian Music — A gargantuan Proms performance and a bold showing from the ENO were among Tom Service's highlightsThe year began with a Mozartian bang as Radio 3 gave us – or subjected us to, depending on your point of view – every note Wolfgang Amadeus ever wro... more info

Guardian Music — BBC Scottish SO/Walker(Toccata)As well as his 32 symphonies, Havergal Brian wrote five operas, none of which has ever been staged. Three of them – the satire The Tigers (1919) to the composer's own libretto, The Cenci (1952) after Shelley, and the ... more info

Guardian Music — Coliseum, London; Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff; Royal Opera House, LondonShostakovich called Mieczyslaw Weinberg's forgotten masterwork The Passenger (1968) a "hymn to humanity", a phrase much quoted in the wake of its belated UK premiere last we... more info

The Telegraph — David McVicar's direction of Faust at the Royal Opera House offers one hell of a good show, with an intelligent sense of the libretto's underlying morality and terrific designs. more info

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, London David McVicar's staging of Faust has always attracted big name casts, and the lineup for its latest revival – Vittorio Grigolo (Faust), René Pape (Mephistopheles), Angela Gheorghiu (Marguerite) and Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Va... more info

Totally Fuzzy — BBC Four documentary Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war. Between 1968 and 1977 bands like Neu!, Can, Faust and Kraftwerk would look... more info

ContactMusic — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stepped in to help director Alexander Sokurov finance his critically-acclaimed Faust The Russian project based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethes play about a scholar who sells his soul to the devil won over the jury... more info