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This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Gounod (1818-1893), the most celebrated French composer in his time, known today for his opera Faust (1859) and the prayer in song Ave ...

Its redemptive ending inspired Mahler to mind-blowing music, Gounod wrote one of the greatest soprano roles for its tragic heroine, and some of us first encountered it via Tintin, but, argues AN ...

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 ...

As part of the long, collaborative process of putting together its innovative production of Charles Gounod’s opera “Faust,” tying the story of a man selling his soul to the devil into the local ...

Gounod's contemporaries believed that his religious works, rather than his operas, would ultimately constitute his most enduring legacy. Posterity has, of course, proved them wrong, but you get some ...

As the Euros continue, and football percolates into the collective consciousness, this week's Letter from France keeps music centre stage and focuses on a man we should be celebrating around now. Not ...

And the only place you can watch it is right here on Classic FM! No, it's not the new track from Beyoncé or Taylor Swift. In fact, it's not even pop music. This fabulous music video is the latest ...