The Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra parted ways with Connecticut Lyric Opera before announcing its 2025-26 season last year but is still very much in the opera business. The company toured its ...

Xavier University of Louisiana challenges the traditional narrative of opera with a student-led production of 'Carmen,' ...

Since its debut in 1875, “Carmen” has become one of the most staged operas in the world. The Jacobs School of Music chose the show for its final opera of the 2024-25 season. The opera follows Don José ...

Is this town big enough for two productions of "Carmen" on the same weekend? Or are the Florentine Opera and Milwaukee Ballet headed for Carmaggedon? We will find out the weekend of May 16-18, when ...

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 ...

WQXR: Susan McClary, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music at the College of Arts and Sciences, discussed “Carmen,” an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet.

Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska’s Micaëla (pictured below) deserves better – as nuanced a delivery as Akhmetshina’s, promising great things for the Puccini roles. The Act Three scene where she spots ...

All of acts one and two take place in Pastia’s bar – a place with its own performing “girls”, who are thus seen as they appear both in front of the baying and lustful male customers – mainly soldiery ...