Carmen, is the focus of all the men’s lust. Spotting Don José amongst them, she approaches him before disappearing, throwing him the red flower she has plucked from her hair... A rebellious heroine In ...

George Bizet’s opera Carmen received its premiere in Paris just weeks before the composer’s death. For the work’s 150th ...

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 ...

Bizet was a French composer and pianist who, after studying at the Paris Conservatoire ... obsessed by all things Spanish, he wrote 'Carmen', a light opera with a serious ending about a beautiful ...

Take Georges Bizet’s “Carmen,” which San Francisco Opera opened on Wednesday ... much like the Opéra Comique premiere in Paris in 1875. The production directed by Francesca Zambello ...

Georges Bizet's 1875 opera scandalised its first audiences in Paris but nowadays "Carmen" is "ever popular", said Laura Wybrow in Radio Times. Set in a remote Spanish town, the tale follows Don ...

The show takes place in 1845 as 19th-century French writer Prosper Merimée struggles with his latest novella, Carmen, which, 30 years later, became the inspiration for Georges Bizet’s famous opera of ...

Advertisement In 1875, "Carmen" by Georges Bizet premiered in Paris. In 1879, attorney Belva Ann Lockwood became the first woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1923, Time ...

Bizet was a French composer and pianist who, after studying at the Paris Conservatoire ... obsessed by all things Spanish, he wrote 'Carmen', a light opera with a serious ending about a beautiful ...