In 1845, Florida was admitted to the United States as the 27th state. In 1875, "Carmen" by Georges Bizet premiered in Paris. In 1879, attorney Belva Ann Lockwood became the first woman to argue a case ...

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

But Bizet understood that Carmen’s radical self-determination is more compelling, her inner life more intriguing than José’s hurt pride. Inger doesn’t give access to Carmen’s insouciant ...

George Bizet’s opera Carmen received its premiere in Paris just weeks before the composer’s death. For the work’s 150th ...

Damiano Michieletto’s stimulating new production of Bizet’s Carmen, a story of love, lust, betrayal and death, is played out in the wide open spaces and oppressive rooms of Paolo Fantini’s ...

Opera directors like to reimagine the classics. Take Georges Bizet’s “Carmen,” which San Francisco Opera opened on Wednesday. While there have been a Nazi-era Carmen, a 20th-century Brooklyn ...

If Georges Bizet had written only Carmen, he would still have earned his place in classical music’s Hall of Fame, yet there is much more to this composer who died tragically young.

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The Israeli Opera holds a dress rehearsal before the opening of the Israeli Opera Festival of Geroges Bizet's "Carmen" at the foot of the ancient fortress Masada, Israel, on June 5, 2012.