The Met celebrates the new year with a new production of Bizet's Carmen by acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell, opening on Sunday, December 31, at 6:30PM. In her highly anticipated Met debut, ...

Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) is an opera in three acts by the French composer Georges Bizet, to a libretto by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré. It was premiered on September 30, 1863 at ...

The Met celebrates the new year with a new production of Bizet's Carmen by acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell, opening on Sunday, December 31, at 6:30PM. In her highly anticipated Met debut, ...

In Bizet's opera, Lillas Pastia is only briefly portrayed, and Brook incorporates Garcia, who does not appear in the opera, from the original story – Merimée's novella Carmen. Notably, before José ...

When Bizet’s opera Carmen was first performed in 1875, critics reported the reception was "glacial." After only 33 performances the composer died suddenly, never to know of the international success ...

“Carmen” it isn’t. But while that crowning masterpiece would suffice by itself as Bizet’s ticket to immortality, the French master’s cruelly short career supplies several persuasive pieces of ...

George Bizet’s “Carmen” is one of the most popular operas of all time with an unforgettable, vivid score. This weekend the Sarasota Opera opened its production of Bizet’s “other” opera, “Les Pêcheurs ...

They don’t keep stats in opera the way they do in baseball. If they did an opera’s On-Stage Percentage, its OSP, would top the list and George Bizet’s “Carmen” would be a true superstar. But if you ...

Depuis 1996, le prélude de « Carmen », le célèbre opéra-comique de Georges Bizet, résonne au moment où les pilotes font ...

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 ...