Behind the scenes of Florida Grand Opera’s “Carmen,” there are intriguing legacies: This will be the 24th production for mezzo soprano Ginger Costa-Jackson who will be singing the role of “Carmen”; ...

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

March 3 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1845, Florida was admitted to the United States as the 27th state. In 1875, "Carmen" by Georges Bizet premiered in Paris. In 1879, attorney Belva Ann ...

In Bizet's opera, Lillas Pastia is only briefly portrayed, and Brook incorporates Garcia, who does not appear in the opera, from the original story – Merimée's novella Carmen. Notably, before José ...

Georges Bizet was just 24 when he wrote his first full-scale opera. He soon wished that he hadn’t. The Pearl Fishers, wrote one caustic Parisian critic, had “neither fishermen in the libretto nor ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Italian conductor Daniele Rustioni made his Met debut conducting Aida in 2017 and ...

This article explores Bizet’s use of common-tone tonality in selections from Carmen. Commontone relations are associated with love and seduction from Carmen’s first entrance, in which a single pitch ...

Director Carrie Cracknell, who made her Metropolitan Opera debut with a new production of Bizet’s “Carmen” on New Year’s Eve, is known for modernizing and giving a feminist edge to classic texts. Her ...

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...