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A Study in Seduction, Obsession, and Symphonic Brilliance When Georges Bizet premiered Carmen at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1875, audiences were startled by the Opera’s realism, its feisty and ...

Reports of the “disastrous” premiere of Georges Bizet’s Carmen have been greatly exaggerated. Some in the Paris audience were shocked by the eponymous heroine’s forthright sexuality, and there were ...

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

From Dec. 6, 2025, through May 30, 2026, the Saturday Matinee Broadcast Season from the Metropolitan Opera is chalk full of ...

When it comes to the public imagination, opera is a genre built on contradiction: exclusive yet ubiquitous. No member of that esteemed canon encapsulates this contradiction better than Georges Bizet’s ...

A searing depiction of a rebellious woman in a man’s world, Carmen shook the genteel world of Paris when it premiered 1875. The score is bursting with some of opera’s most memorable tunes, like Carmen ...

One of the more hotly anticipated work-in-progress sessions at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival was for “Viva Carmen,” a new feature from director Sébastien Laudenbach. At the 2023 edition of the ...

Hawaii Opera Theatre (HOT) is thrilled to announce the highly anticipated return of mezzo-soprano Alice Chung in the title role of Bizet’s Carmen, opening on Friday, April 11th, 2025, at the Neal S.

Georges Bizet was a child prodigy. Entering the Paris Conservatory at the age of nine, he counted among his teachers Antoine Marmontel, François Benoist and Jacques Halévy. At nineteen Bizet won a ...