All of acts one and two take place in Pastia’s bar – a place with its own performing “girls”, who are thus seen as they appear both in front of the baying and lustful male customers – mainly soldiery ...

No opera is more familiar to the world than “Carmen,” Georges Bizet’s masterpiece about a doomed love triangle. The characters and their foibles are so real and its tunes so memorable that it is one ...

Opera North’s daring and debauched new production of Carmen opens in Downtown Seville, in the US state of Ohio with the risible, cartoon-like ensemble blasting on to the stage during the Overture.

Carmen is reportedly one of the most performed operas in the world but I wonder for how long. Watching the Opera North production of Georges Bizet's work at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle was a bit of ...

Carmen (Heather Shipp) is ostracised from her community for being the only person able to overcome the monotony of the workplace and resist the brutal authority figures. However, Director Daniel ...