For its 12th season, Opera in the Heights is offering a series of Intimate Portraits: Women in Love. Carmen, the femme fatale of Bizet's once radical tragedy, represents opera's love-'em-and-leave-'em ...

George Bizet's restless, fiery, free-spirited heroine Carmen is the current production at the Lyric Opera. Mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges in the title role grabs you from the moment of her first entrance ...

You’ve heard the music of the opera “Carmen” on “Sesame Street” and in commercials, but that’s not why it’s been called opera’s guilty pleasure. Even the critics who panned Bizet’s opera at its ...

Opera Theatre St. Louis opens it's 47th season with a striking production of Bizet's Carmen. Rejoicing fills the building as the company returns to their beautiful stage in the Loretto-Hilton Center ...

In an unspecified southern U.S. locale, Michael Levine’s first act set offered a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire protecting three austere truck bays where feisty factory girls in Tom Scott’s ...

Clémentine Margaine and Michael Fabiano in Bizet’s “Carmen.” Photo: Nina Wurtzel / Met Opera Carrie Cracknell’s “American border town” Carmen looked as ill-conceived as it did when it premiered on New ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Amid a steady rain, the Santa Fe Opera opened its 65th season Friday night with a thoughtfully conceived and ...

Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska’s Micaëla (pictured below) deserves better – as nuanced a delivery as Akhmetshina’s, promising great things for the Puccini roles. The Act Three scene where she spots ...

Before there was Johnny and Amber, there was Don José and Carmen, a toxic love that acts as a textbook for how to not have romantic relationships. With the Depp vs. Heard trial putting the topic of ...