Carmen is not only a poor woman in a rich man’s world, but a gypsy – one of the most marginalised groups of any society, in any era. Clémentine Margaine as ...

Photo by Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera. Danielle Talamantes as Frasquita, Clémentine Margaine in the title role, and Shirin Eskandani as Mercédès Photo by Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera ...

This doesn’t always work: the Metropolitan Opera’s latest Carmen, set in some loosely defined American West, is apparently a stinker. But what Canadian director Joel Ivany did with the piece ...

Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting February 28th, 1987 - Buy Bizet Carmen Agnes Baltsa José Carreras Samuel Ramey Metropolitan Opera DVD ...

This allstar cast is framed by Peter Halls gritty realistic production and conducted by James Levine who brings out all the surging emotion and gripping drama in Bizets score At the center of the ...