Though one of the greatest French operas, “Samson et Dalila” (1877) doesn’t enjoy the ceaseless performance frequency of another French showcase for mezzo-soprano, Georges Bizet’s “Carmen.” ...
Andrew Irwin stars in Northern Ireland Opera’s first Carmen at Belfast’s Grand Opera House, September 2026, with a stellar cast and ...
Opera sa Kundiman is a tribute to Maestra Conching Rosal.
Highlights of the week in chamber music include three commissioned world premieres from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, five major works by Johannes Brahms, and Opera at the Pink, ...
CINCINNATI — Cincinnati Opera closes its 2026 summer festival with one of the most popular operas in the world, "Carmen," at Music Hall. The production stars mezzo-soprano J'nai Bridges in the title ...
Those who may regard Bizet's "Carmen" as one of their very favorite operas--but for the fact that it drags on a little bit too long (some productions can run more than three hours) -- might take heart ...
My first reaction when I heard of a new animated feature film adaptation of Georges Bizet‘s 1875 opera, Carmen, was that despite the animated form it was taking, this had to be for adult and fans of ...
Even with the source music mostly excised, this imaginatively designed, iridescently hued family film from 'Chicken for Linda!' director Sébastien Laudenbach is a vibrant delight. That film, ...
The "Chicken for Linda!" director returns with another singularly gorgeous work of animation. Feature-length animation has largely become a merciless and exacting thing, every frame invested with such ...
Director Sébastien Laudenbach on adapting Bizet’s Carmen for a young audience, why he set out to make a movie he’d never quite finish — and what failure can teach children. By Lily Ford “I think ...
EXCLUSIVE: Sébastien Laudenbach’s Viva Carmen, an animated retelling of Georges Bizet’s famous opera Carmen, debuts in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight this week and Deadline reveal a first clip. In ...
Carmen is back – again. Opera Hong Kong’s fourth production of Georges Bizet’s masterpiece takes a bold approach by setting the story, not in 19th century Spain, but in 1970s Hong Kong, a fitting move ...