Faust – review

Grand, Leeds"We were very clear about it being contemporary from the beginning," Rob Kearley remarks in the programme for Opera North's new production of Faust, which he has co-directed with Ran Arthur Braun in association with video artist Lillevan. "Contemporary" really does mean here and now in this instance: as presidential elections draw near, Braun and Kearley have relocated Gounod's opera to the present-day US and "put it into a political environment where everything is heightened, force...

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