Faust | Opera review

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 many famous arias and choruses, turning them into production numbers. In fact, the show's weakest elements are the set pieces, such as Mephistopheles's Calf of Gold song, and the universal waltz that ends the second act, neither of which is effectively ...

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