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When Bizet’s opera Carmen was first performed in 1875, critics reported the reception was "glacial." After only 33 performances the composer died suddenly, never to know of the international success ...

George Bizet’s “Carmen” is one of the most popular operas of all time with an unforgettable, vivid score. This weekend the Sarasota Opera opened its production of Bizet’s “other” opera, “Les Pêcheurs ...

“Carmen” it isn’t. But while that crowning masterpiece would suffice by itself as Bizet’s ticket to immortality, the French master’s cruelly short career supplies several persuasive pieces of ...

The Met celebrates the new year with a new production of Bizet's Carmen by acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell, opening on Sunday, December 31, at 6:30PM. In her highly anticipated Met debut, ...

The first full-length opera by Georges Bizet, Les Pêcheurs de Perles, has never achieved anything like the classic status of his mature masterpiece Carmen, possibly because the earlier piece—despite ...

Damiano Michieletto’s Carmen, met with a rather muted response at its premiere last year, returns to the Covent Garden stage in far better shape for this, its first revival. Revived by Dan Dooner, the ...

They don’t keep stats in opera the way they do in baseball. If they did an opera’s On-Stage Percentage, its OSP, would top the list and George Bizet’s “Carmen” would be a true superstar. But if you ...

Peter Brook’s version of Carmen is strong musically, but has dramatic limitations Premiered in 1981, Peter Brook’s adaptation of Bizet’s Carmen has received numerous productions. Its chief virtue, as ...

Brilliant and intriguing, but on the whole unnecessary deconstruction of Bizet’s hugely popular opera With Bizet’s Carmen having played 2,906 performances in Paris’ Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique ...

It’s regularly voted the most popular opera in the world, but Georges Bizet had no idea that his final work would become such a triumph, as Martin Buzacott explains. Prosper Mérimée was a French ...