Viva Carmen' by Sébastien Laudenbach pitched a WIP version at Annecy with a bold, youthful spin on Bizet’s iconic opera.

A 1930s setting, flamenco flair and a deeper dive into characters fuel the Charlottesville Opera's "Carmen" production, which ...

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 ...

Bizet proposed an adaption of the novella by Prosper Mérimée, Carmen. Completed by the summer of 1874, Bizet was sure he had composed a work of merit: "…this time I have written a work that is ...

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 ...

This is not a reinterpretation of Bizet’s Carmen, but a completely new experience. Motivated by the French composer’s fatal romance and memories of his mother, Millepied realizes an intense ...

"Carmen" is the work by French music genius Georges Bizet. It was completed in the summer of 1874 and remains one of the most popular operas ever written. Based on Merimee's novel Carmen ...

With a devilish sway of the hips and a hint of Andalusian flair, Carmen, the beautiful cigar ... The fiery beauty of Bizet’s music, where one unforgettable aria follows another, has worked ...