Protesters brought a performance of Carmen to a stop last Friday at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. At least one protestor managed to get on stage during Act 1 of Bizet’s classic. Three ...
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In 1995, the Joffrey Ballet got a one-way ticket to Chicago and crossed its fingers. After four decades in New York, the company was on the brink of closure, arriving here with a pile of debt and a ...
TDO presents the U.S. Premiere of a reconstruction of Bizet's beloved opera's debut production 150 years ago. Mrs. Eugene McDermott Music Director Emmanuel Villaume conducts The Dallas Opera Orchestra ...
The Dallas Opera (TDO) opens its 2025/2026 Season with the U.S. premiere of a new production celebrating the 150th anniversary of Georges Bizet’s iconic CARMEN opening on Friday, October 17, 2025.
Virginia Woolf, in her essay “The Lives of the Obscure,” savors the potential fascination of reading authors whom posterity has cast aside: “One likes romantically to feel oneself a deliverer ...
Nicholas Fox conducts Opera in the Park 2024 La Traviata. Photo courtesy of Opera in the Park. Last summer, Opera in the Park Portland made a big change and moved its annual summer performance from ...
Some of the greatest tunes from the world of opera will be swirling around Peninsula Park this Sunday during a free production of Bizet’s “Carmen” presented by Opera in the Park. Its memorable arias ...
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An opera in four acts, the story of Carmen is taken from Prosper Mérimée’s novella and turned into a libretto written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Premiered in 1875 at the Opéra-Comique in ...