Opera Traveller described Irish mezzo-soprano Niamh O'Sullivan as being "the owner of one of the most sheerly beautiful lyric mezzos in some time", and we're about to hear exactly why.

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, ...

Carmen’s rhythms set her body in perpetual motion – contagious and seductive. Nancy Fabiola Herrera as Carmen & the Opera Australia Chorus, photo: Branco Gaica The fictional character of Carmen – the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Watching and listening to Georges Bizet's "Carmen" at Sarasota Opera is a bit like sitting through a collection of opera's ...

CHICAGO—“Carmen” has a tragic ending as did the opera’s composer Georges Bizet (1838–1875). In his lifetime, he considered himself a failure, for when his last opera, “Carmen,” was mounted in Paris in ...

ROME—Opera in Italy has always been a raucous affair. It is common to hear elegantly dressed opera aficionados “boo” a soprano if she misses a high note or demand that the tenor sing his lines again ...

‘Welcome to Harmony’ flashed a road sign at the opening of The Car Man - marking the start of two hours of lust, intrigue, ...

Bizet’s incidental music for Daudet’s 1872 play The Girl from Arles was given its first UK complete performance by Sir Mark Elder, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and strong soloists in Jere ...

When Georges Bizet’s opera “Carmen” premiered in 1875, scandalized Parisian audiences couldn’t wrap their minds around the story of a woman who brawled, smoked like a chimney and refused to be tied ...

According to the public relations manager and media consultant of the play Sara Haddadi, the opera is translated and directed by Neda Shahrokhi. Yassaman Khajehi serves as the dramaturge and the ...

HOW MUCH: $22-$105 general admission; $15 students/under 30; $5 to qualified low-income New Mexico residents through the Opera for All initiative; at operasouthwest.org, 505-724-4771 One of the most ...