Aigul Akhmetshina, performing now at the Met, shares her thoughts on what it takes to bring the famous Habanera to life.

Essentially, opera is an art form that is nearly entirely reliant on donations. The top opera companies pull anywhere between ...

The majestic dancer transcended both mediums and categories, working as an actress and choreographer and toggling between ballet and modern dance, film and television, the concert stage and the ...

The Bastille Opera House will present Carmen by Georges Bizet in a production directed by Calixto Bieito, running from February 7 to March 19, 2026. First premiered in 1875, this iconic opera delves ...

Written by Georges Bizet, on a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, Carmen premiered at Opera Comique in Paris, France on March 3, 1875. The opera spurred mixed emotions amongst critics and ...

Carmen and Daniel McCormack tied the knot in an intimate ceremony in 2024 — since then, there's been a lot of misconceptions about their relationship Sarah Jones joined PEOPLE as a Senior Reporter in ...

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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 ...

One of the more hotly anticipated work-in-progress sessions at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival was for “Viva Carmen,” a new feature from director Sébastien Laudenbach. At the 2023 edition of the ...

We're less easily shocked today. But watching Florentine Opera's new production of "Carmen," it's easy to see what startled its Parisian audience when Bizet's opera debuted in 1875. Carmen's brazen ...

Ballet Hispánico, the nation’s largest Latine/x/Hispanic dance organization and recognized by the Ford Foundation as one of America’s Cultural Treasures, presents Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s ...

While enjoying the classics in music played by the JSU Civic Symphony, you may hear someone talking to you. But it’s not the person sitting next to you. It’s the composers of the music that you hear, ...