Seattle Opera's production of George Bizet's classic heightens the contrast between the story's tragic and comedic elements.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Watching and listening to Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” at Sarasota Opera is a bit like sitting through a collection of opera’s ...

Philadelphia -- Fans of the opera Carmen will be delighted by the Philadelphia Ballet's staging of Bizet's classic as a ballet. Featuring World Premiere Choreography by Artistic Director Angel Corella ...

One of opera's all-time classics will introduce the 29-year-old company to Western Massachusetts audiences May 15.

2 OH, MARY! Reveals Tour Dates and Cities For 2026-27 3 OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reveals 2026-27 Tour Dates and Cities Portland Opera launches their 2022/23 season this November with a cultural touchstone, ...

Opera Hong Kong's bold Hong Kong-set Carmen reimagines Bizet's classic with triad gangsters, Cantonese lines and electrifying ...

Reports of the "disastrous" premiere of Georges Bizet's Carmen have been greatly exaggerated. Some in the Paris audience were shocked by the eponymous heroine's forthright sexuality, and there were ...

We're less easily shocked today. But watching Florentine Opera's new production of "Carmen," it's easy to see what startled its Parisian audience when Bizet's opera debuted in 1875. Carmen's brazen ...

Aigul Akhmetshina dazzles, but Mark Elder’s heavy-handed conducting dulls the sparkle of the first revival of Michieletto’s Carmen staging Freddie De Tommaso & Aigul Akhmetshina (Photo: Marc Brenner) ...

MasterVoices sheds the typical grand-opera treatment of Bizet’s classic to reveal a sleeker, funnier show. By Seth Colter Walls Do we truly know Bizet’s “Carmen”? To be fair, the opera could ...

Georges Bizet was just 24 when he wrote his first full-scale opera. He soon wished that he hadn’t. The Pearl Fishers, wrote one caustic Parisian critic, had “neither fishermen in the libretto nor ...