SUMMIT — Considered one of the most popular and vibrant operas in existence, George Bizet’s "Carmen" is now in production at Stony Hill Players in Summit. The dramatic love story of Carmen, a tobacco ...

The Met celebrates the new year with a new production of Bizet's Carmen by acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell, opening on Sunday, December 31, at 6:30PM. In her highly anticipated Met debut, ...

When the curtain first came down on Georges Bizet’s Carmen, on March 3, 1875, nobody in attendance would have guessed that they had witnessed what would become admired as one of opera’s finest ...

Bizet’s two famous operas couldn’t be more different. The first, The Pearl Fishers, is cruelly remembered for containing only one hit. Carmen, by contrast, is so packed full of memorable melodies that ...

The overture to Bizet’s opera Carmen has accompanied the Formula One champagne-spraying podium tradition since the mid-90s. Since it was first televised in 1978, Formula One racing has become ...

Carmen is Georges Bizet’s most famous opera, renowned all over the world. Bringing it to Limassol is The Met: Live in HD, a programme that broadcasts operas straight from New York. A live transmission ...

The sexy and scandalous Carmen simply refuses to remain in the opera world, having flirted with ballet, hip hop and even rock and roll. As the Royal Opera House presents their new cabaret version, we ...

Australian director Benedict Andrews may have thought that portraying Mimi as a heroin addict rather than a victim of tuberculosis would make an edgy update to Puccini’s romantic tragedy of La Boheme, ...

If you were under the impression that the term "Opéra Comique" meant a "comic opera", you might be literally correct, but truthfully the joke would be on you. What does it really mean? Opéra Comique ...

Even so, I'd challenge anyone to read a rather cheeky programme note interpreting Bieito’s production points and find much that tallied in the performance. Late Franco era? Chances are that won't be ...