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 ...

Set in sunbaked Seville, it’s got doomed loves and a jealous murder. It’s got rough-around-the edges women working in a cigarette factory, plus soldiers, smugglers, a Roma femme fatale and a dashing ...

A classic opera, and Indiana premiere and a Stephen Sondheim comedy that contains one of his most devastatingly beautiful songs will be on Indianapolis Opera's 2023-2024 season. The indoor part of the ...

Since its debut in 1875, “Carmen” has become one of the most staged operas in the world. The Jacobs School of Music chose the show for its final opera of the 2024-25 season. The opera follows Don José ...

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.

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In our fair city, grand opera is a rare and specialized commodity, making its way onto the cultural calendar only a handful of times each year. Hence, the chance of catching two views of a single ...

Change of time, change of place. It’s set in “a small border town”, presumably somewhere in the Americas, and the costuming tells us we’re in the late 1950s or early Sixties. There’s no cigarette ...

Before there was Johnny and Amber, there was Don José and Carmen, a toxic love that acts as a textbook for how to not have romantic relationships. With the Depp vs. Heard trial putting the topic of ...

For years Soprano Rosa Ponselle has openly aspired to be the Carmen of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Carmen in the repertoire, sung by any popular singer, means a crowded house, money in the till.