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 enduring ...

Months after the 1875 world premiere of Carmen was met with hostile reviews, 36-year-old composer George Bizet died without knowing his work would become one of the most popular of all operas. The ...

Soprano Asmik Grigorian is to sing the title role in Georges Bizet's “Carmen,” a mezzo-soprano touchstone, for the first time ...

Behind the scenes of Florida Grand Opera’s “Carmen,” there are intriguing legacies: This will be the 24th production for mezzo soprano Ginger Costa-Jackson who will be singing the role of “Carmen”; ...

Georges Bizet’s "Carmen" looks to a fiery gypsy woman and the men who fall under her spell. San Diego Opera’s production heightens the passions of the story with its fight choreography. For most ...

When Georges Bizet’s opera “Carmen” premiered in 1875, scandalized Parisian audiences couldn’t wrap their minds around the story of a woman who brawled, smoked like a chimney and refused to be tied ...