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Of all the music inspired by the ancient tale of the old philosopher who sells his soul for a second lease of  life, Gounod's Goethe-based opera is at once the most grandly spectacular and the most endearingly romantic. Updating the story's classic setting to a more contemporary world at war, this new co-production with New York's Metropolitan Opera marks the UK opera debut of the Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff….

Rufus Norris, the multi-award-winning director of such West End and international hits as Cabaret, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Festen, makes his operatic debut with Mozart's most darkly seductive score. Set designer Ian MacNeil has also won numerous awards, including two Evening Standard Awards (one for Festen), two Oliviers (one for ENO's Ariodante) and a Tony (for Billy Elliot: The Musical). Here making his London operatic debut, the outstanding young Ukrainian…