Celebrate 22 years of "Carmen: A Hip Hopera," the groundbreaking fusion of hip hop & opera starring Beyoncé, that changed pop culture forever. Twenty-two years ago, a groundbreaking musical film hit ...

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 ...

“Carmen” is, in a word, problematic, but ballet companies and opera houses continue to stage versions of Bizet’s opera, a tale of a free-spirited Romani who seduces a soldier, only to be killed by him ...

Ahead of NI Opera’s first production of Carmen opening in September, New York operatic star, Noah Stewart, tells Gail Bell ...

Ginger Costa-Jackson is Carmen in Maria Todaro’s Florida Grand Opera production of George Bizet’s opera, opening April 12 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami. (Photo by Walt ...

Clémentine Margaine and Michael Fabiano in Bizet’s “Carmen.” Photo: Nina Wurtzel / Met Opera Carrie Cracknell’s “American border town” Carmen looked as ill-conceived as it did when it premiered on New ...

When the Canadian Opera Company production of Carmen premiered in 2005, a young Joel Ivany was an extra posing as a photographer in the scene wherein the bullfighter Escamillo makes his entrance.

Carmen’s rhythms set her body in perpetual motion – contagious and seductive. Nancy Fabiola Herrera as Carmen & the Opera Australia Chorus, photo: Branco Gaica The fictional character of Carmen – the ...

The Metropolitan Opera premiered its new production of Bizet’s Carmen on New Year’s Eve, starring the dynamic Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina in the title role. Her performance has won over ...

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Not all the directorial decisions work equally well, but we’ll get to one of those later. Bizet’s score has been trimmed slightly and we don’t get all the dialogue, but the cuts mean that the evening ...

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 ...