Even so, I'd challenge anyone to read a rather cheeky programme note interpreting Bieito’s production points and find much that tallied in the performance. Late Franco era? Chances are that won't be ...

If you were under the impression that the term "Opéra Comique" meant a "comic opera", you might be literally correct, but truthfully the joke would be on you. What does it really mean? Opéra Comique ...

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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 ...

Calixto Bieito’s staging of Bizet’s masterpiece remains a calling card for ENO – dust, danger and late-Franco grit cutting against picture-postcard Seville. I’ve admired it here before on many ...

When the English theater director Peter Brook took hold of Bizet's beloved opera "Carmen" 35 years ago, jettisoning half the music, altering the plot and reducing the cast of dozens to a core ensemble ...

O’Sullivan has emerged as a marvellous singer-actor, with a singular, beautiful and at times sensual mezzo instrument. She makes Carmen real: defiant, provocative and fierce, brave rather than ...

The enduring popularity of Georges Bizet’s opera “Carmen” flows from the uncommon unity of its fabulous melodies with the story’s magnetic characters and their emotions. Opera San Antonio’s “Carmen” ...

Donna Reed meets David Bowie and Rocky Horror, backed by a ‘70s light show. “The Tragedy of Carmen” may not have had something for everyone. But it certainly had a little something of everything. The ...

A reimagined staging of Georges Bizet’s classic, “Carmen,” will be broadcast Jan. 27 in at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish as part of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series. Acclaimed English ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- The French opera Carmen is celebrating 150 years with Hawaii Opera Theatre (HOT) with two special performances this weekend. Georges Bizet’s passionate and timeless ...