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 ...

Bizet came from a very musical family – his father was a composer and his mother was a pianist – and his own musical talents were obvious from an early age. In fact, he was such a talented child that ...

Elīna Garanča Sings the Habanera with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča sings the habanera from Georges Bizet's "Carmen" with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Virginia Opera presents French composer Georges Bizet’s passion-filled masterpiece Carmen, one of the most popular operas of all time, with recognizable arias including “The Habanera” and “The ...

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 ...

Carmen, a sizzling opera composed by Georges Bizet, is a timeless tale of love, jealousy, and fiery passion. Debuting at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1875, Carmen broke conventions with its raw ...

After the composer’s one-act opera Djamileh (1871), a director of Paris’s Opéra-Comique, Camille du Locle, suggested that Bizet collaborate with two of Paris’s leading librettists: Henri Meilhac and ...

The Palm Beach Opera opened its 60th season with a full performance of Georges Bizet “Carmen” at the Kravis Center on Friday. The leads are double-cast but had one substitution during the evening: ...

Mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča sings the habanera from Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert airs on PBS with special guest Renée ...