Reports of the "disastrous" premiere of Georges Bizet's Carmen have been greatly exaggerated. Some in the Paris audience were shocked by the eponymous heroine's forthright sexuality, and there were ...

Carmen is a myth—something that never was, yet always is. The freedom-loving Carmen is portrayed there as the demonic, exotic seductress of a man who is still self-assured at the beginning. The love ...

The premiere of Georges Bizet's opera 'Carmen,' directed by Ada Hausvater, opens the new season of the Bucharest National Opera on 1 October at 18:30. According to a press release the organisers sent ...

Set in sunbaked Seville, it's got doomed loves and a jealous murder. It's got rough-around-the edges women working in a cigarette factory, plus soldiers, smugglers, a Roma femme fatale and a dashing ...

“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 ...

Valley Opera and Performing Arts (VOPA) concludes its 20th Anniversary season with one of opera's most beloved and electrifying masterpieces: Georges Bizet's Carmen. Directed by Dylan F. Thomas and ...

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 ...

As soccer fans from around the world converge on North Texas for FIFA World Cup 2026, passion, drama and soccer are on stage in Opera Arlington’s production of Bizet’s Carmen, playing June 5-6 at ...

Northern Ireland Opera has unveiled the first cast and creative team for the company’s performance of Georges Bizet’s Carmen.