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

The first words uttered by Carmen mark one of the greatest entrances in the history of opera and express all that need be said Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame With a devilish sway ...

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 ...

The film stars Mescal as Aidan, a veteran of the Afghanistan conflict who has returned home after two tours, only to find ...

This tale of love, passion, and obsession set in sun-drenched Spain, with its inevitable tragic end, has captivated audiences ...

U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in ...

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 ...

opera’s classic blond good girl who, up against black-haired, classic dark beauty Carmen, has zero chance of getting her man. Now add a fine supporting cast, a huge chorus of 35, the Virginia ...