On the afternoon of Sunday, May 17, the Brooklyn-based Regina Opera Company presented the opera “Carmen” by Georges Bizet (1838-75). “Carmen” was Bizet’s masterpiece — an opera in four acts, with ...
Saint Louis’ Union Avenue Opera is celebrating the start of it’s thirtieth year with a superb production of Bizet’s Carmen! (Thirty years—that’s twenty-nine seasons. Like everyone else Union Avenue ...
Opera North’s daring and debauched new production of Carmen opens in Downtown Seville, in the US state of Ohio with the risible, cartoon-like ensemble blasting on to the stage during the Overture.
Call it the compact version of Carmen, where all pageantry has been stripped away to expose the bare essentials. Peter Brook believed that was the most important part of French composer Georges ...