The imposing deep royal blue satin curtain stayed down during the entirety of the overture of Gounod’s Faust presented by the Canadian Opera Company, which opened on October 11. This was a stark ...

BOSTON - How much would you sell your soul for to the Devil? For all the money in the world? For ultimate power? Eternal life? Fame and fortune? Or maybe for the heart of the first beautiful woman you ...

He was in his 20s then, having just quit medical school when the autopsies proved traumatic and his drive toward music won out over his physician father’s insistences. Then, he wrote eight small ...