With mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard in the title role of this revival, which opened Tuesday night, that impression was ...

BY ALAN SHERROD   Note for note, minute for minute, Georges Bizet’s Carmen can seem today like one hit tune after another.

We're less easily shocked today. But watching Florentine Opera's new production of "Carmen," it's easy to see what startled its Parisian audience when Bizet's opera debuted in 1875. Carmen's brazen ...

This summer season, there is a plethora of outstanding cultural performances happening on the island. New and returning festivals will entertain culture lovers until the fall. In early September, not ...

The English National Opera‘s revival of Carmen, staged at the London Coliseum, offers one of the most recognisable operas in a way that feels urgent, visceral and vividly theatrical. The score’s ...

Reports of the “disastrous” premiere of Georges Bizet’s Carmen have been greatly exaggerated. Some in the Paris audience were shocked by the eponymous heroine’s forthright sexuality, and there were ...

If you’re accustomed to performances of Georges Bizet’s opera “Carmen” that paint the tragic heroine as a temptress, get ready for a production reminding fans that it takes two to tango.

As Korea’s opera scene heads into the year’s final stretch, major companies across the country are unveiling high-profile productions that underline the growing ...

One of the more hotly anticipated work-in-progress sessions at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival was for “Viva Carmen,” a new feature from director Sébastien Laudenbach. At the 2023 edition of the ...

The hand-painted backdrops in “Carmen” offer “an amazing effect,” shares Ian Derrer, the opera’s Kern Wildenthal general director and CEO. Marion Kerno/Opéra de Rouen The Dallas Opera begins its 68th ...