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 ...

Set in Spain and sung in French, George Bizet’s Carmen has some of the most famous melodies and characters in any opera. The opera opens outside a cigarette factory in Seville, where soldiers have ...

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 ...

It’s time to be seduced. Seattle Opera’s production of “Carmen,” George Bizet’s widely popular opera about a sexy gypsy, opens this weekend at McCaw Hall. Considered the most popular opera ever ...

THE BASICS: Buffalo Opera Unlimited presented Bizet’s complete opera CARMEN on Friday, December 3 at 7:30, and will encore on Sunday, December 5 at 2:30 at Rockwell Hall Performing Arts Center, 1300 ...

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 ...

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”; ...

The title character of Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” is a lusty gypsy girl who works in a cigarette factory in 19th century Spain. Her occupation is proving to be troublesome in 21st century Australia, ...

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 ...

Ginger Costa-Jackson is Carmen in Maria Todaro’s Florida Grand Opera production of George Bizet’s opera, opening Saturday, April 12 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami. Behind ...