The Met celebrates the new year with a new production of Bizet's Carmen by acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell, opening on Sunday, December 31, at 6:30PM. In her highly anticipated Met debut, ...

HOW MUCH: $22-$105 general admission; $15 students/under 30; $5 to qualified low-income New Mexico residents through the Opera for All initiative; at operasouthwest.org, 505-724-4771 One of the most ...

The Met celebrates the new year with a new production of Bizet's Carmen by acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell, opening on Sunday, December 31, at 6:30PM. In her highly anticipated Met debut, ...

The hand-painted backdrops in “Carmen” offer “an amazing effect,” shares Ian Derrer, the opera’s Kern Wildenthal general director and CEO. Marion Kerno/Opéra de Rouen The Dallas Opera begins its 68th ...

Carmen is an opera in four acts by 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. The opera was ...

Carmen is considered one of the greatest operas of all time, and after being performed around the world it's coming to a new stage: comic books. Arizona Opera is partnering with writer/artist P. Craig ...

Watch Sir Richard Eyre’s production of Bizet’s masterpiece starring Clémentine Margaine reprising her role as opera’s ultimate seductress alongside Roberto Alagna as her impassioned lover Don José.

The first words uttered by Carmen mark one of the greatest entrances in the history of opera and express all that need be said: “Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame…” With a devilish sway ...

This article explores Bizet’s use of common-tone tonality in selections from Carmen. Commontone relations are associated with love and seduction from Carmen’s first entrance, in which a single pitch ...

There is no character in opera quite like Carmen (mezzo Carolyn Sproule). She stands alone. Wagner’s Brünhilde is a demi-goddess, too imperious and rather scary. Puccini’s Mimi is always sick, ...

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