Asmik Grigorian is reaching a new low — in a positive way — and doing it on one of the world’s top stages. A star soprano, ...

Carmen is back at the Union Avenue Opera. This audience favorite will open the opera’s 30th anniversary season with four performances on July 5, 6, 12, and 13. Carmen by Georges Bizet follows the ...

The Dallas Opera begins its season this Friday with the most famous of all operas, Carmen. But there’s an audacious twist: it’s a visual recreation of the original 1875 staging, with carefully made ...

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

When it comes to the public imagination, opera is a genre built on contradiction: exclusive yet ubiquitous. No member of that esteemed canon encapsulates this contradiction better than Georges Bizet’s ...

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 ...

An opera in four acts, the story of Carmen is taken from Prosper Mérimée’s novella and turned into a libretto written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Premiered in 1875 at the Opéra-Comique in ...

Get a first look at The Met Opera's highly anticipated new production of Carmen. In her highly anticipated Met debut, Cracknell reinvigorates the classic story of deadly passion with a staging that ...

French composer Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera “Carmen” has endured in the operatic repertoire for close to 150 years. It’s past time, then, for opera companies staging the show to offer fresh, modern ...

HOW MUCH: $22-$105 general admission; $15 students/under 30; $5 to qualified low-income New Mexico residents through the Opera for All initiative; at operasouthwest.org, 505-724-4771 One of the most ...

This Spring, The Royal Opera will present the first revival of Damiano Michieletto's production of Carmen. Michieletto's staging casts a new light on the lust, violence and passion of Bizet's ...

"Carmen," the classic, racy opera tale of seduction, failed love, and revenge, has captivated audiences for nearly 150 years. Yet this innovative production, directed by Dominque Serrand and produced ...