When the curtain first came down on Georges Bizet’s Carmen, on March 3, 1875, nobody in attendance would have guessed that they had witnessed what would become admired as one of opera’s finest ...

This article explores Bizet’s use of common-tone tonality in selections from Carmen. Commontone relations are associated with love and seduction from Carmen’s first entrance, in which a single pitch ...

Philadelphia -- Fans of the opera Carmen will be delighted by the Philadelphia Ballet's staging of Bizet's classic as a ballet. Featuring World Premiere Choreography by Artistic Director Angel Corella ...

Erich Leinsdorf and the Chicago Symphony are giving us bogus Bizet on the same weekend that Lyric Opera is opening with the Bizet ”Carmen”-in its original form. Here we have another of those neat ...

In choosing Georges Bizet's best-known work to launch its three-show season, Syracuse Opera is in good company. "Carmen" was staged at Chicago Lyric in February; Atlanta in April, and Los Angeles in ...

This year's opera at the splendidly enterprising Lakes Area Music Festival was Bizet's "Carmen." It played to a packed audience Saturday evening at the Tornstrom Auditorium in Brainerd. It wasn't easy ...

One of music’s great tragedies is that the French composer Georges Bizet did not live long enough to enjoy the success of his greatest creation, the musical tale of his iconic gypsy heroine, Carmen.

Georges Bizet was just 24 when he wrote his first full-scale opera. He soon wished that he hadn’t. The Pearl Fishers, wrote one caustic Parisian critic, had “neither fishermen in the libretto nor ...

This thrillingly fresh and vibrant version of Carmen, based on performances given in Salzburg and Berlin earlier this year, deserves to rank with the classic recordings conducted by Beecham and Abbado ...

It’s regularly voted the most popular opera in the world, but Georges Bizet had no idea that his final work would become such a triumph, as Martin Buzacott explains. Prosper Mérimée was a French ...

Dancer-choreographer Benjamin Millepied makes his feature directing debut, collaborating with composer Nicholas Britell to recast the famous opera as an experimental fever dream on the U.S.-Mexico ...