Ballet Ireland revives and tours this contemporary version of Carmen. Based on Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera, the original score was reworked by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin in the mid 20th century, ...

Bizet came from a very musical family – his father was a composer and his mother was a pianist – and his own musical talents were obvious from an early age. In fact, he was such a talented child that ...

Initial impressions are disconcerting, the bass thwacks at the start of the first suite extracted from Bizet’s Carmen by Ernest Giraud almost too polite, but the ears adjust quickly; what we get is ...

The Senior Suburban Orchestra, now in its 25th season, invites the community to a Family and Friends Concert on Saturday, May 3. During this concert, the orchestra will perform well-known music from ...

Georges Bizet was just 24 when he wrote his first full-scale opera. He soon wished that he hadn’t. The Pearl Fishers, wrote one caustic Parisian critic, had “neither fishermen in the libretto nor ...

Santa Fe Opera opened its 58th season on Friday evening with an entertaining new production of one of the art form’s most dependable warhorses, Georges Bizet’s Carmen. The piece has figured in seven ...