With Jonas Kaufmann in the title role, René Pape as the devil, and Marina Poplavskaya as Marguerite, Gounod’s classic retelling of the Faust legend couldn’t be better served. Saturday at 1 pm on Classical 90.5. See the Met radio season here.
Metropolitan Opera's Faust
![](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/c786240/2147483647/strip/true/crop/602x200+0+0/resize/880x292!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F05%2Fmet_faust.jpg)