"Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame," crooned Mason Gross School of the Arts graduate student Shengnan Yang, ...

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 ...

The Royal Opera’s Carmen Credit: Alastair Muir There is fine support from other young artists from the Jette Parker programme, and the touches of whimsy in the staging (jokey on-stage captions ...

Last year's new production of Carmen from Damiano Michieletto won critical acclaim. Directed as a verismo piece, Michieletto ...

The story of Carmen is as dramatic as they come ... The gypsy woman of this opera is a hot-tempered, impetuous and sensual soul, brought to life by French composer Georges Bizet’s rousing ...

The gloomy, silent figure in her black dress is back, casting her disapproving shadow over her son Don José in Damiano Michieletto’s production of Bizet’s Carmen. When it was new last year, this show ...