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 ...

The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet is one of the premier guitar ensembles, and they'll play music of Georges Bizet from the 1875 opera Carmen in the Carmen Suite, from their 2001 Telarc CD "LAGQ Latin." ...

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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, ...

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 ...

Bizet’s Carmen has everything you want from an opera: high drama, passionate characters, a love story. And what’s more it’s absolutely packed with great melodies – even if you don’t know the opera, ...