Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Watching and listening to Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” at Sarasota Opera is a bit like sitting through a collection of opera’s ...

When Georges Bizet’s opera “Carmen” premiered in 1875, scandalized Parisian audiences couldn’t wrap their minds around the story of a woman who brawled, smoked like a chimney and refused to be tied ...

When the Canadian Opera Company production of Carmen premiered in 2005, a young Joel Ivany was an extra posing as a photographer in the scene wherein the bullfighter Escamillo makes his entrance.

Exclusive: Mescal's first post-"Aftersun" role is this opera-inspired film set against the backdrop of the modern American immigration system. Millepied’s film stars Mescal and Melissa Barrera as an ...

Not all the directorial decisions work equally well, but we’ll get to one of those later. Bizet’s score has been trimmed slightly and we don’t get all the dialogue, but the cuts mean that the evening ...

Ginger Costa-Jackson is Carmen in Maria Todaro’s Florida Grand Opera production of George Bizet’s opera, opening April 12 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami. (Photo by Walt ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The British director Carrie Cracknell’s production, opening on New Year’s Eve, resists the idea that the opera’s climactic scene is a crime of passion. Aigul Akhmetshina, center ...

Opera Orlando concludes its fifth-anniversary MainStage series in person and in grand style with Georges Bizet's fiery masterwork Carmen. This ever-popular opera captivates from its opening notes to ...

150 years after its original debut, it's safe to say Georges Bizet's Carmen is one of the most well-known and beloved operas in the world. Now the Arizona Opera is spearheading an ambitious attempt to ...