As Korea’s opera scene heads into the year’s final stretch, major companies across the country are unveiling high-profile ...

It is home to Australia’s most prestigious arts festival, the southern hemisphere’s biggest world-music jamboree and the ...

Set in sunbaked Seville, it’s got doomed loves and a jealous murder. It’s got rough-around-the edges women working in a cigarette factory, plus soldiers, smugglers, a Roma femme fatale and a dashing ...

Just ask tenor Jonathan Burton, who has become one of America’s leading Canios, with 13 productions already under his belt.

With mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard in the title role of this revival, which opened Tuesday night, that impression was ...

On Saturday, October 25, the Monache Marauder Band returned to Selma for the 60th annual Selma Rotary Parade and Field Tournament, hosted by the California State Band Championships. Monache has ...

Marion Kerno / Opera de Rouen 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 ...

Georges Bizet was born on this day in 1838. He died at the tragically early age of 36, 150 years ago, and the anniversary ...

The season opens with Giacomo Puccini's "La bohème" from Jan. 23-26, followed by Georges Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers" from ...

The Dallas Opera begins its season this Friday with the most famous of all operas, Carmen. But there’s an audacious twist: it’s a visual recreation of the original 1875 staging, with carefully made ...

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 ...

BY ALAN SHERROD   Note for note, minute for minute, Georges Bizet’s Carmen can seem today like one hit tune after another.