Special to Town Times by Larry Kellum To paraphrase the humorous expression from the 1970’s, “the devil made me do it”, Satan, Lucifer – or Mephistopheles as he is known in Charles Gounod’s grand French opera “Faust” – is the demon responsible for the pathetic title hero’s lustful and destructive […]
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David Kennedy, bass – baritone
Bass-baritone David Kennedy is an engineer with a love of singing who made his CLO debut earlier in the 2014-2015 as the police inspector in Der Rosenkavalier. He has appeared as soloist for many choral groups and churches throughout Connecticut, and has been a member and soloist with CONCORA since […]
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FAUST by C. Gounod:
New Britain, Hartford, New London, Middletown
Charles Gounod’s Faust draws upon the two act play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a literary classic based on the German legend of a man who sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Gounod’s opera does not attempt to match the breadth of Goethe’s masterpiece, […]
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