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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 ...

State Opera South Australia will close its Golden Jubilee mainstage season with a new production of Bizet's CARMEN at Her Majesty's Theatre ...

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 ...

CHICAGO—“Carmen” has a tragic ending as did the opera’s composer Georges Bizet (1838–1875). In his lifetime, he considered himself a failure, for when his last opera, “Carmen,” was mounted in Paris in ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by During a break at the Royal Opera House, Aigul Akhmetshina discussed her action-packed career, “Carmen” and her mission to spread her love of opera.

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.

Bizet's opera "Carmen" features many masterpieces that you have surely heard somewhere, such as the "Habanera" and the "Toreador Song." Even if you know the music, "What is 'Carmen' actually about?" ...

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 ...

“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 ...