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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Faust - Caught on Camera

Les Siècles/Lehmann La Damnation de Faust review – vivid colour, soaring solos and a sharp-suited demon

Period instrument grain and an energised Jakob Lehmann did a fair job with Berlioz’s concert setting of the drama, but the hall’s murky acoustic buried some of the sparkle

The Guardian - UK

It’s unfashionable, wild and wilful – why Bax’s music deserves a comeback

The British composer is once again missing from the Proms schedule – that’s our loss. Instead, here’s my pick of the brand new music you can catch at the summer festival

The Guardian - UK

‘People say: be quiet and make your music’: avant-pop star Mary Ocher on her vociferous politics – and leaving Israel behind

Born in Russia and raised in Israel, Ocher rejected the IDF draft for a life in Germany. As she releases an album inspired by the Weimar period, she discusses nationalism, AI and the future of humanity

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It’s known for making submarines. So how does this remote Cumbrian venue attract the world’s boldest musicians?

In a park keeper’s lodge in Barrow-in-Furness, Full of Noises has hosted the likes of Julia Holter and Lonnie Holley – and is a model for why arts funding matters

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‘Do you want to say I’m dated?’ Artist Anne Imhof on her S&M Venice shocker – and the show that earned a mauling

She was the art world’s hottest ticket after her confrontational goths-and-dobermans show at the Venice Biennale. But did she get too cosy with the worlds of fashion and advertising?

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‘I knew I was doing something I shouldn’t’: Karl Ove Knausgård on the fallout from My Struggle and the dark side of ambition

The Norwegian author on his autofictional epic, moving to London, and the psychopath at the heart of his new novel

The Guardian - UK

‘I said goodbye to Heath Ledger at this urinal’: a stroll round Terry Gilliam’s pivotal places

The studio where he crashed the Life of Brian spaceship, the stage where he put on a Faust that caused fights, the pub where he last spoke to Heath Ledger … the ex-Python takes a hilarious and evocative meander down memory lane

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“Five decades on, it’s still a bewildering but rewarding experience”: Faust’s self-titled debut album returns

The German collective’s opening salvo remains as uncompromising as ever

Louder

From 'Faust' to 'Him': Why Hollywood can't quit the devil's deal

The Independent UK

Faustus in Africa! review – William Kentridge’s devilishly clever twist on damnation

Faustus is not damned alone in a parable about western hubris leading to war, colonialism and environmental exploitation

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Faust review – darkly gothic production turns Gounod’s opera into boisterous Les Mis

The 1860s French setting mixes panache and musical charm as Faust sells his soul to Méphistophélès and seduces Marguerite

The Guardian - UK

"You might hate us, but at least you've heard of us." How Cradle Of Filth became Britain's most iconic black metal band

Controversial t-shirts, murder confessions, being held at gunpoint at the Vatican - Cradle Of FIlth have plenty of stories from over 30 years on the frontlines of extreme metal

Metal Hammer

“We had no commercial ambitions. This introverted Norwegian attitude is what enabled us to create something that no one else had done”: How Emperor made black metal masterpiece In The Nightside Eclipse and changed metal forever

Emperor’s landmark debut In The Nightside Eclipse is one of the most important metal albums of the 1990s

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Evening Standard

Mahler 8 at the Multitudes festival: 'five stars, if not for the screensaver visuals'

4/5 The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner, excel at Mahler’s 8th but the experimental video accompaniment was only partially successful

TechRadar

Solar calculators aren't the only everyday tech that's sustainably powered – here are 3 new gadgets that can harness the sun

Solar-powered gadgets are slowly becoming more widely accessible – here are three of the latest you can buy.

Windows Central

STALKER 2's new Patch 1.3 update has arrived with 1,200+ notes, but its biggest problem still isn't fixed

Patch 1.3 has come to STALKER 2, but the update didn't make a balance change the game sorely needs.

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All Stalker 2 endings and how to get each

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The Guardian - UK

Goethe: His Faustian Life by AN Wilson review – a messy hymn to a very modern man

The biographer and historian worships at the altar of the German writer and his magnum opus in an ambitious book that ties itself in knots

The Guardian - UK

Louise Bertin: Fausto album review – a superb recording of a lost opera

Christophe Rousset proves this recently rediscovered score by the 19th-century female composer deserves a much wider audience

Chicago Sun-Times

The Bears messed up Soldier Field. Why give them another chance to mess up a stadium?

The team complains about Soldier Field, but the organization is to blame for the way it looks and operates and all its foibles. Giving the Bears free rein to arrogate public property turned out to be a multifaceted disaster.

Chicago Sun-Times

White Sox’ Mike Clevinger gives up two homers vs. Cubs

Clevinger fine-tuning tweaks as first start against Astros inches closer

The Guardian - UK

The Damnation of Faust review – Berlioz’s exemplary evocations of heaven and hell

Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic offered a timely reminder of Berlioz’s astonishing gifts as a choral and orchestral writer

The Guardian - AU

Following its Faustian pact to keep the stage-three tax cuts, Labor should stick with the fable and find salvation

Having made a deal with the devil, can the government leverage trust to seek a fresh mandate to preserve this vital part of our nation?

The Guardian - UK

An Oxford college is about to link itself to a bikini airline. Now that’s what I call classy

There’s a Faustian element to Linacre’s £155m deal with a Vietnamese billionaire

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