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Guild Opera Company will present Bizet's opera Carmen at River of the Valley in Canoga Park. Learn more and see how to ...
Viva Carmen' by Sébastien Laudenbach pitched a WIP version at Annecy with a bold, youthful spin on Bizet’s iconic opera.
The Dallas Opera’s 2025/2026 Season features four productions new to the local stage — including a version of Carmen faithful to its 1875 debut.
Set in Spain and sung in French, George Bizet’s Carmen has some of the most famous melodies and characters in any opera. The opera opens outside a cigarette factory in Seville, where soldiers have ...
In 1875, "Carmen" by Georges Bizet premiered in Paris. In 1879, attorney Belva Ann Lockwood became the first woman to argue a ...
She references the book “Carmen” by Prosper Mérimée, the original novella from 1845 that inspired the classic opera by Bizet. “Before Carmen dies, she says ‘I was born free and I will ...
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 ...
Laudenbach’s new film “Viva Carmen” has a similar mission: to translate Georges Bizet’s famous opera to a younger audience without compromising the themes and music that have contributed ...
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 ...