Reports of the "disastrous" premiere of Georges Bizet's Carmen have been greatly exaggerated. Some in the Paris audience were shocked by the eponymous heroine's forthright sexuality, and there were ...

We're less easily shocked today. But watching Florentine Opera's new production of "Carmen," it's easy to see what startled its Parisian audience when Bizet's opera debuted in 1875. Carmen's brazen ...

Carmen is a myth—something that never was, yet always is. The freedom-loving Carmen is portrayed there as the demonic, exotic seductress of a man who is still self-assured at the beginning. The love ...

The premiere of Georges Bizet's opera 'Carmen,' directed by Ada Hausvater, opens the new season of the Bucharest National Opera on 1 October at 18:30. According to a press release the organisers sent ...

Northern Ireland Opera announced the first cast and creative team for its inaugural staging of Bizet's Carmen at Belfast's ...

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Set in sunbaked Seville, it's got doomed loves and a jealous murder. It's got rough-around-the edges women working in a cigarette factory, plus soldiers, smugglers, a Roma femme fatale and a dashing ...

As with most operas, the story was never the primary selling point of "Carmen," so to adapt it with the music heavily downplayed in favor of the narrative is an audacious move; refashioning this tale ...

Northern Ireland Opera has unveiled the first cast and creative team for the company’s performance of Georges Bizet’s Carmen.

March 3 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1845, Florida was admitted to the United States as the 27th state. In 1875, "Carmen" by Georges Bizet premiered in Paris. In 1879, attorney Belva Ann ...