Watching and listening to Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” at Sarasota Opera is a bit like sitting through a collection of opera’s greatest hits, all in one production, which likely explains its ...

In partnership with music ensemble CarmenCo, theatre and music company The Telling presents a fun-filled music and theatre ...

O pera directors like to reimagine the classics. Take Georges Bizet’s “Carmen,” which San Francisco Opera opened on Wednesday. While there have been a Nazi-era Carmen, a 20th-century ...

Bizet finished his most famous and most popular piece of work, the opera 'Carmen', in 1874. The 'Habanera' from Act I and the 'Toreador Song' from Act II of 'Carmen' are now two of the best known ...

Olga James, the singer and actor who costarred with Harry Belafonte in Otto Preminger’s classic 1954 musical film Carmen Jones, died January 25 at an assisted living facility in Los Angeles. She was ...

Opera Australia performs Bizet's Carmen, against the backdrop of Sydney Harbour. Naive soldier Don Jose abandons his childhood sweetheart and deserts the army when he falls under the spell of an ...

Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée.

WORCESTER — If one were to ask what events marked the year 1875, a history book may say that the first Kentucky Derby was held, the first performance of Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" was staged ...