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 ...

Mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča sings the habanera from Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Wagner and Verdi are featured in this year's celebration with the Vienna ...

Shoppers in Bradford have been surprised by a flashmob of operatic proportions. In this spontaneous public performance, caught on film last Friday, Broadway Shopping Centre erupts with song, as dozens ...

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 ...

When it comes to the public imagination, opera is a genre built on contradiction: exclusive yet ubiquitous. No member of that esteemed canon encapsulates this contradiction better than Georges Bizet’s ...

With unusual candor, James Robinson, who is directing the upcoming production of “Carmen” at Court Theatre, admits, “I have a feeling that opera enthusiasts might be exceedingly disappointed.” Oh?

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Carmen shocked audiences at its 1875 premiere in Paris, but the work's music and ...

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