Gounod would say that he acquired his vocation with his mother’s milk, for she sang as she suckled him. Signs of an inherited musical gift—his mother, widowed young, supported the family by giving ...

It’s a sign of just how far out of fashion Gounod has fallen that none of the major British houses is taking the opportunity to stage one of his operas. A revival of David McVicar’s production of ...

It is the most famous love story of all time: Romeo and Juliet. Now Charles Gounod's operatic adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy returns to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. It is the most ...

Marguerite is surely the most innocent of the main characters in Faust. But even she is tempted by the cask of gems that Mephistopheles slyly places outside her door. Finding them, she launches into ...

‘Je veux vivre’ from Gounod’s opera Roméo et Juliette is a stunning piece of vocal gymnastics. Here’s a stunning performance from the Vienna State Opera by the phenomenal soprano Aida Garifullina ...

Gounod's Faust was the most popular French opera of the 19th century, but Gounod's personal life was at least as colourful as his stage works... Gounod is an intriguing fellow, an endearing mix of the ...

French composer Charles Gounod (sharl goo-NOH) carefully chose nine wind instruments to make up his "Petite Symphonie." From a concert at Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church, in the Washington, D.C., ...

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