My first reaction when I heard of a new animated feature film adaptation of Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera, Carmen was that, ...

Northern Ireland Opera announced the first cast and creative team for its inaugural staging of Bizet's Carmen at Belfast's ...

According to the public relations manager and media consultant of the play Sara Haddadi, the opera is translated and directed by Neda Shahrokhi. Yassaman Khajehi serves as the dramaturge and the ...

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 ...

Prior to SCA’s first opera screening of the semester, George Bizet’s “Carmen,” Thornton resident stage director Ken Cazan explained how Bizet’s titular character is a significant female protagonist ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “The Pearl Fishers” has taken its share of criticism since the opera’s 1863 debut at the Theâtre-Lyrique in Paris. Musical pundits have knocked its uneven ...

San Francisco Opera's 2019 Summer Season opens with Georges Bizet's Carmen June 5 29 at the War Memorial Opera House. Presented in American director Francesca Zambello's acclaimed staging, which has ...

In an interview published in the program, director Michael Gow eloquently outlines his approach to these problems. Relocating the opera to 1860s colonial Ceylon, he has re-imagined it as an explicit ...