As with most operas, the story was never the primary selling point of “Carmen,” so to adapt it with the music heavily ...

When Georges Bizet finished composing his opera “Carmen” in the summer of 1874, he was full of optimism about its prospects. “I have written a work that is all clarity and vivacity, full of color and ...

Valley Opera and Performing Arts will present Bizet's Carmen at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, directed by Dylan F ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The 150th anniversary of Bizet’s death this year has not received much attention. Only aged 36, Bizet had ...

Bizet’s Carmen has everything you want from an opera: high drama, passionate characters, a love story. And what’s more it’s absolutely packed with great melodies – even if you don’t know the opera, ...

Arguably the most popular of all operas, Carmen is especially beloved of Hong Kong audiences. Fittingly, in the year that marks the 150th anniversary of both the opera and of the death of its composer ...

The overture to Bizet’s opera Carmen has accompanied the Formula One champagne-spraying podium tradition since the mid-90s. Since it was first televised in 1978, Formula One racing has become ...

Bizet’s famous heroine first appeared in a novella by Prosper Mérimée in 1845. Thirty years later, Bizet adapted the story into an opera that has since become one of the world’s most loved, with the ...

The opera certainly proved entertaining — just not right away. Its commissioners at the Opéra Comique in Paris initially objected to the story of the cigarette-factory girl stabbed by a lover.