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Aria Code is a podcast that pulls back the curtain on some of the most famous arias in opera history, with insight from the biggest voices of our time, including Roberto Alagna, Diana Damrau, Sondra ...
“Carmen,” Georges Bizet’s sprawling opera about a transfixing gypsy and the love triangle she cultivates, is one of the most performed operas in the world. This familiarity – a dose of comfort amid ...
“There was something strange and wild about her beauty. Her face astonished you, at first sight, but nobody could forget it. Her eyes, especially, had an expression of mingled sensuality and ...
First, the piece itself: Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera boasts some of the most seductive and adhesive music ever written for the stage—it’s all hooks from first bar to last. It boasts a whistle-able ...
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 Florentine Opera tells the story of Carmen in the Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall March 13 through 22, audiences will see a production that both is and isn’t the grand opera the world has come ...
It’s been said before, but Carmen is the perfect opera for beginners: it’s less than three hours long, it contains familiar music, and the timeless story is adaptable to nearly any moment in history.
The Mississippi Opera’s seven decades make it the country’s ninth oldest continuously producing professional opera company. Still singing strong, Mississippi Opera marks that 70-year milestone this ...