Retiring from opera has its own set of challenges, but there is plenty I share with the other millions of Americans ending ...

Asmik Grigorian is reaching a new low – in a positive way — and doing it on one of the world’s top stages. A star soprano, ...

Carmen is considered one of the greatest operas of all time, and after being performed around the world it's coming to a new stage: comic books. Arizona Opera is partnering with writer/artist P. Craig ...

Watching and listening to Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” at Sarasota Opera is a bit like sitting through a collection of opera’s greatest hits, all in one production, which likely explains its enduring ...

When the Canadian Opera Company production of Carmen premiered in 2005, a young Joel Ivany was an extra posing as a photographer in the scene wherein the bullfighter Escamillo makes his entrance.

HOW MUCH: $22-$105 general admission; $15 students/under 30; $5 to qualified low-income New Mexico residents through the Opera for All initiative; at operasouthwest.org, 505-724-4771 One of the most ...

The title character of Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” is a lusty gypsy girl who works in a cigarette factory in 19th century Spain. Her occupation is proving to be troublesome in 21st century Australia, ...

One of the most popular operas ever, Georges Bizet’s Carmen carries with it the drama, scale and sex appeal befitting to kick off the Los Angeles Opera’s 2013-14 season at the Dorothy Chandler ...

Not all the directorial decisions work equally well, but we’ll get to one of those later. Bizet’s score has been trimmed slightly and we don’t get all the dialogue, but the cuts mean that the evening ...

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 ...

Over six decades she worked in theater, opera, film and television alongside luminaries like Alvin Ailey, Lena Horne, Agnes ...