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 ...

Notes * A revival of Carmen opened last night at San Francisco Opera with some very fine singing and lively, brisk playing. Francesca Zambello's 2006 production is both pretty and functional, there is ...

Ideas tumble out and collide in Yuval Sharon’s "A New Philosophy of Opera" (Liveright). The out American director, deemed a maverick by many, steps off stage to deliver his manifesto about keeping ...

Holly D. Johnson Playa del Carmen's main street, La Quinta Avenida, runs parallel to the shore and serves as a pedestrian walkway for travelers and locals. The avenue is several miles long and ...

Before streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime, DVDs were king for generations of children. At one time, the only way to see a film after it had left the cinema and before it appeared on ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Relieved fans celebrated with a rendition of “Carmen Ohio” along with the players in the south end zone after the Buckeyes squeaked out a 21-17 win over Nebraska on Saturday.

Amid the death of physical media, a TikToker has gone viral after sharing a life hack that allows you to get Redbox DVDs for free. Standing in front of the infamous Redbox DVD dispenser ...

The Oscar winner, 49, stars as the late opera singer in director Pablo Larraín's latest biopic. Larraín notably focused his two previous films on 20th-century titans, Natalie Portman as former ...

Jolie is widely tipped as a Best Actress Oscar contender for a performance that involved seven months of opera training. Jolie is widely tipped as a Best Actress Oscar nominee for her role as a ...

The season opens with Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West” with Riccardo Frizza conducting a cast that includes Carmen Giannattasio ... where he has had the privilege of interviewing numerous opera stars ...