Mephistopheles

...rights, such was the level of his sales. But Wheatley's royalties didn't come by engaging literary agents from the firm of Faust, Mephistopheles and Screwtape. His riches were due entirely to a very Simon Cowellesque ability to give the...

In this article: Dennis Wheatley, Faust, Derivative, God, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

...Dulcamara's celebrated sales pitch from L'elisir d'amore with so irresistible a combination of vocal heft and verbal clarity, or Mephistopheles's drinking song from Gounod's Faust with such Gallic glee. And the show did give us a teasing...

In this article: Bryn Terfel, Cardiff, St David's Hall, Don Giovanni, Faust, It Ain't Necessarily So, Sweeney Todd, Tosca, and Otello

The arias included many Terfel has performed in Wales and on opera house stages across the world. Villains included an arrogant, debauched Mephistopheles from Gounod's Faust and the sneering version from Boito's Mefistofele, a bile-spitting...

In this article: Bryn Terfel, Cardiff, St David's Hall, Faust, Sweeney Todd, L'elisir d'amore, Mefistofele, and Der Freischutz

...run, and young American-based singers Joseph Kaiser and Kyle Ketelsen are doing so for the last week of "Faust" as the title character and the devil Mephistopheles respectively. Although Kaiser seemed to be having some uncharacteristic...

In this article: Piotr Beczala, Faust, Joseph Kaiser, Civic Opera House, Ana Maria Martinez, Rene Pape, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and March

...Dulcamara from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore is a mere conman, it's a generally scary bunch that includes Boito's Mefistofele and Gounod's Mephistopheles, Scarpia from Tosca, Weber's Kaspar (from Der Freischutz), Iago, drug dealer Sportin' Life...

In this article: Bryn Terfel, Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim, Jean Valjean, Mefistofele, Les Miserables, and Don Giovanni

...to them. Such is the case at Lyric Opera of Chicago, where Joseph Kaiser and Kyle Ketelsen have taken over the roles of Faust and Mephistopheles, respectively, for the remaining performances of Gounod's "Faust" at the Civic Opera House.

In this article: Faust, Faust, Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Marriage of Figaro, Romeo et Juliette, and Beatrice et Benedict

...plainly having the time of his life." -- Chicago Tribune "Did we mention the play's hilarious? O'Reilly, who created the role of Mephistopheles in Apology's 1999 premiere, now plays Faustus to frantic perfection. ... Unmissable." -- Five...

In this article: Faustus, Chicago Tribune, and Chicago

...who "had a reputation for sucking the life of his employees," said Stoker. "And Bram watched him play evil characters (including) Mephistopheles and Richard III for 27 years." In a move that will upset Bram Stoker purists, Stoker and...

In this article: Dracula, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Vlad III Dracula, Abraham Van Helsing, and Henry Irving

...drunk, and repentant of nothing save his failure to keep a proper diary. Over the course of this hour he rails against his silent servant Mephistopheles and tells the fantastic tale of his life - a life filled with wonders, as well as an...

In this article: Chicago, Leo Strauss, and Chopin Theatre

...from virginal innocence to disillusion, despair, madness and apotheosis. Sealing the triumph was the debonair and sardonic Mephistopheles of Rene Pape. The Dresden-born bass played the devil as a top-hatted dandy in tails, a grand...

In this article: Faust, Faust, Andrew Davis, Ana Maria Martinez, Civic Opera House, and Lyric Opera of Chicago