Sopranos always know how to make a triumphant entrance… watch Danielle de Niese’s fabulously bold performance of Bizet’s aria ‘Habanera’. A fantastically dramatic entry, a bold Bizet aria, and a ...

Watching and listening to Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” at Sarasota Opera is a bit like sitting through a collection of opera’s greatest hits, all in one production, which likely explains its enduring ...

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Don't miss out on the headlines from Rockhampton. Followed categories will be added to My News. Set in Seville in Franco’s socially conservative 1960s Spain, the opera follows the ill-fated ...

Carmen is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was ...

Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” is the third-most performed opera in the world and one that has transcended the opera theater and entered the public consciousness. Whether in the form of Muppet renditions or ...

Months after the 1875 world premiere of Carmen was met with hostile reviews, 36-year-old composer George Bizet died without knowing his work would become one of the most popular of all operas. The ...

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 ...

When Bizet’s opera Carmen was first performed in 1875, critics reported the reception was "glacial." After only 33 performances the composer died suddenly, never to know of the international success ...

In choosing Georges Bizet's best-known work to launch its three-show season, Syracuse Opera is in good company. "Carmen" was staged at Chicago Lyric in February; Atlanta in April, and Los Angeles in ...

Bizet’s “Carmen,” perhaps the most notorious opera, tells the tragic romance of the beautiful gypsy Carmen and an already-betrothed soldier, Don Jose. Written in the 1870s and set in Spain, the story ...

One of opera’s most indelible femme fatales returns to the stage of Palm Beach Opera tonight, along with one of the operatic community’s most high-profile rising stars. J’Nai Bridges, a Washington ...