Opera Australia performs Bizet's Carmen, against the backdrop of Sydney Harbour. Naive soldier Don Jose abandons his childhood sweetheart and deserts the army when he falls under the spell of an ...

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 ...

As the fate motif sounds in the orchestra at the end of the Prelude to Georges Bizet’s “Carmen,” the curtain — in San Francisco Opera’s current ... is a shade less full and warm than ...

Opera directors like to reimagine the classics. Take Georges Bizet’s “Carmen,” which San Francisco Opera opened on Wednesday. While there have been a Nazi-era Carmen, a 20th-century Brooklyn ...