Philadelphia -- Fans of the opera Carmen will be delighted by the Philadelphia Ballet's staging of Bizet's classic as a ballet. Featuring World Premiere Choreography by Artistic Director Angel Corella ...

When the curtain first came down on Georges Bizet’s Carmen, on March 3, 1875, nobody in attendance would have guessed that they had witnessed what would become admired as one of opera’s finest ...

Erich Leinsdorf and the Chicago Symphony are giving us bogus Bizet on the same weekend that Lyric Opera is opening with the Bizet ”Carmen”-in its original form. Here we have another of those neat ...

In choosing Georges Bizet's best-known work to launch its three-show season, Syracuse Opera is in good company. "Carmen" was staged at Chicago Lyric in February; Atlanta in April, and Los Angeles in ...

This year's opera at the splendidly enterprising Lakes Area Music Festival was Bizet's "Carmen." It played to a packed audience Saturday evening at the Tornstrom Auditorium in Brainerd. It wasn't easy ...

Initial impressions are disconcerting, the bass thwacks at the start of the first suite extracted from Bizet’s Carmen by Ernest Giraud almost too polite, but the ears adjust quickly; what we get is ...

Georges Bizet was just 24 when he wrote his first full-scale opera. He soon wished that he hadn’t. The Pearl Fishers, wrote one caustic Parisian critic, had “neither fishermen in the libretto nor ...

When Michigan Opera Theatre this weekend opens its 2016-17 season with Georges Bizet’s 1875 masterpiece, it will mark the seventh time the company has produced the work in 46 seasons — about once ...

Dancer-choreographer Benjamin Millepied makes his feature directing debut, collaborating with composer Nicholas Britell to recast the famous opera as an experimental fever dream on the U.S.-Mexico ...

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