Opera directors like to reimagine the classics. Take Georges Bizet’s “Carmen,” which San Francisco Opera opened on Wednesday.

She does get her comeuppance, however, in an especially brutal way, in the end. San Francisco Opera, for the 35th time, returns to Georges Bizet's sultry, shocking tragedy from 1875, opening its final ...

Celebrating Virginia Opera’s 50th season, and back in the repertoire after a 10-year absence, behold opera’s feistiest, most ...

behold opera’s feistiest, most fickle, most fearless and most freedom-loving proto-feminist heroine. She’s Carmen, of course, ...

Carmen is not only a poor woman in a rich man’s world, but a gypsy – one of the most marginalised groups of any society, in any era. Clémentine Margaine as ...

On the Arts host David Latulippe’s guests are SF Opera’s Jeffrey McMillan; Opera San José Director Michelle Ainna Cuizon and ...