Bizet’s Carmen has everything you want from an opera: high drama, passionate characters, a love story. And what’s more it’s absolutely packed with great melodies – even if you don’t know the opera, ...

The story of the Spanish gypsy girl comes from Prosper Mérimée’s novella Carmen, published in 1845. It caught Bizet’s attention, and he proposed that he adapt it for opera with two leading Parisian ...

When does an expertise become a straitjacket? It is not only actors playing a long-running role in a soap or a detective series who can find themselves "stuck" with a character: pity the opera singer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carmen, a sizzling opera composed by Georges Bizet, is a timeless tale of love, jealousy, and fiery passion. Debuting at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1875, Carmen broke conventions with its raw ...

ABRSM examiner Russell Hepplewhite provides insights on tackling the Toreador Song. Download your music and learn Bizet's Toreador Song on the piano. ABRSM is the UK's largest music education body, ...

Perfect in the role of Carmen’s mousy competition, Micaëla, is the internationally renown, Justyna Giermola, whose shy and modest demeanor let her rich soprano drip Cap this with Don Jose himself, ...

Carmen, a sizzling opera composed by Georges Bizet, is a timeless tale of love, jealousy, and fiery passion. Debuting at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1875, Carmen broke conventions with its raw ...

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 ...