Bizet’s “Carmen,” perhaps the most notorious opera, tells the tragic romance of the beautiful gypsy Carmen and an already-betrothed soldier, Don Jose. Written in the 1870s and set in Spain, the story ...

Bizet’s Carmen has everything you want from an opera: high drama, passionate characters, a love story. And what’s more it’s absolutely packed with great melodies – even if you don’t know the opera, ...

San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program is continuing its 2026 season with La Tragédie de Carmen. See photos of the condensed ...

Amarillo is set for an evening of passion and drama as the Amarillo Opera presents Georges Bizet’s iconic "Carmen" on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. at the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts.

Amarillo is set for an evening of passion and drama as the Amarillo Opera presents Georges Bizet’s iconic "Carmen" on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. at the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Watching and listening to Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” at Sarasota Opera is a bit like sitting through a collection of opera’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

As world premieres go, opening night for Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera “Carmen” at the Opéra-Comique in Paris was far from triumphant. The opera’s subject matter was certainly scandalous — Carmen, a ...

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 ...

Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska’s Micaëla (pictured below) deserves better – as nuanced a delivery as Akhmetshina’s, promising great things for the Puccini roles. The Act Three scene where she spots ...

When Georges Bizet’s opera “Carmen” premiered in 1875, scandalized Parisian audiences couldn’t wrap their minds around the story of a woman who brawled, smoked like a chimney and refused to be tied ...