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 ...

Passion, obsession, desperation, jealousy and rage make for a fiery combination in composer Georges Bizet’s Carmen, newly ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

Behind the scenes of Florida Grand Opera’s “Carmen,” there are intriguing legacies: This will be the 24th production for mezzo soprano Ginger Costa-Jackson who will be singing the role of “Carmen”; ...

A passionate tale of lust, seduction and betrayal, no other opera boasts as popular a following as Bizet's Carmen. Set during the dying days of Franco's Spain, Calixto Bieito's acclaimed production of ...