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 ...

Rinat Shaham has played the role of Carmen in hundreds of different productions all over the world. Loading Rinat's Carmen is unforgiving and gutsy — both in manor and voice — backed up by the Opera ...

Celebrating Virginia Opera’s 50th season, and back in the repertoire after a 10-year absence, behold opera’s feistiest, most fickle, most fearless and most freedom-loving proto-feminist heroine. She’s ...

Sopranos always know how to make a triumphant entrance… watch Danielle de Niese’s fabulously bold performance of Bizet’s aria ‘Habanera’. A fantastically dramatic entry, a bold Bizet aria, and a ...