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Robert Lepage came to the Met on Friday and brought along a big bag of technological tricks. The object of his potential illumination: Berlioz’s Damnation de Faust, an ecstatic yet static légende dramatique that hardly requires...
High-tech circus meets grand opera. That's a quick way to sum up the Metropolitan Opera's production of Hector Berlioz's masterpiece, "La Damnation de Faust," which opened Friday at Lincoln Center. The spectacle was directed by...
A watery reflection ripples beneath a boat gliding along the stage. These uncanny scenes play out in a production of Berlioz's "Damnation de Faust," which opens Friday night at the Metropolitan Opera and introduces an...
Jamaican-born singer Grace Jones and alt-rock outfit Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will lead an eclectic line-up for the 2009 Sydney Festival, which organisers promise will bring the harbour city alive. Jones will kick off her...
For his last hurrah, the man behind the Sydney Festival continues his adventurous course, writes Joyce Morgan. The Sydney Festival director Fergus Linehan expected to learn many things when he assumed the mantle four years ago....
