Bizet finished his most famous and most popular piece of work, the opera 'Carmen', in 1874. The 'Habanera' from Act I and the 'Toreador Song' from Act II of 'Carmen' are now two of the best known ...

Bizet finished his most famous and most popular piece of work, the opera 'Carmen', in 1874. The 'Habanera' from Act I and the 'Toreador Song' from Act II of 'Carmen' are now two of the best known ...

The event celebrating the 150th anniversary of the composer's death will take place at the Villa Viardot outside Paris from ...

If Georges Bizet had written only Carmen, he would still have earned his place in classical music’s Hall of Fame, yet there ...

Here are five short reasons why Carmen makes such a great “first opera ... the way Bizet paces the evening, from a taut overture to a violent, inexorable conclusion. This is music and ...

Damiano Michieletto’s stimulating new production of Bizet’s Carmen ... For an opera which failed at its first performance but which is now among the world’s most oft-performed music-dramas ...

Opera Australia performs Bizet's Carmen, against the backdrop of Sydney Harbour. Naive soldier Don Jose abandons his childhood sweetheart and deserts the army when he falls under the spell of an ...

The "unforgettable mix of words, music, action and ... to be a real treat. Georges Bizet's 1875 opera scandalised its first audiences in Paris but nowadays "Carmen" is "ever popular", said Laura ...

Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée.