Now in its fourth summer, Opera Wilmington will serve up one of the genre's favorite soap operas, Georges Bizet's "Carmen." The production opens Friday for a two-weekend run at the Mainstage Theatre ...

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, ...

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 ...

Bizet’s two famous operas couldn’t be more different. The first, The Pearl Fishers, is cruelly remembered for containing only one hit. Carmen, by contrast, is so packed full of memorable melodies that ...

When does an expertise become a straitjacket? It is not only actors playing a long-running role in a soap or a detective series who can find themselves "stuck" with a character: pity the opera singer ...

Michel Plasson conducts the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, chorus and principals in one of the best-loved operas ever composed. Angela Gheorghiu in the title role of Carmen with Inva Mula-Tchako as ...

When Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” debuted in Paris at the Opéra Comique in 1875 it was cause for scandal. Critics panned it. Audiences, expecting the family fare typical of the venue, were shocked by its ...

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