Bizet came from a very musical family – his father was a composer and his mother was a pianist – and his own musical talents were obvious from an early age. In fact, he was such a talented child that ...

Rinat Shaham has played the role of Carmen in hundreds of different productions all over the world. Loading Rinat's Carmen is unforgiving and gutsy — both in manor and voice — backed up by the Opera ...

Shoppers in Bradford have been surprised by a flashmob of operatic proportions. In this spontaneous public performance, caught on film last Friday, Broadway Shopping Centre erupts with song, as dozens ...

Mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča sings the habanera from Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert airs on PBS with special guest Renée ...

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 ...

The brilliant Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero has made a name for herself as a brilliant improviser – and if you want to know why, watch this epic NINE MINUTE improvisation on the habanera from ...

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 ...

"MeTube", a homage to thousands of ambitious YouTube users and video bloggers, gifted and less gifted self-promoters on the Internet, has attracted international attention. No less than George Bizet's ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Dance By Alastair Macaulay In his overture to “Carmen,” Bizet introduces a recurring motif that listeners have invariably associated with fate and ...

New productions of Bizet’s famous opera are rewriting the femme fatale’s tragic ending, writes Sophia Smith Galer. “If your death is near, if Destiny has written the words none shall deny,” murmurs ...