The Schaefer Center Presents Series Opens Spring Season with Ballet Hispánico’s CARMEN.maquia. Celebrate 150 years of Bizet’s masterpiece in this revolutionary fusion of art ...

The heroines in operas and ballets often die in the end, usually at the hands of a jealous man. Bizet’s Carmen is no different, even in Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s 21st-century dance version. But from ...

A s 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 revival of director Francesca Zambello ...

Bizet finished his most famous and most popular piece of work, the opera 'Carmen', in 1874. The 'Habanera' from Act I and the 'Toreador Song' from Act II of 'Carmen' are now two of the best known ...

Georges Bizet’s Carmen was last seen here in 2019 in Francesca Zambello’s production, which is now revved. I attended the Saturday evening performance on November 16 at the War Memorial Opera House.

Initially the piece was a flop - critics complained that it didn't have enough melody in it and Bizet died three months later thinking himself a failure. He didn't live to see 'Carmen' gradually ...

Ballet Hispánico will present Gustavo Ramírez Sansano's masterwork CARMEN.maquia at New York City Center from May 29-June 1, ...

Ballet Hispánico. Ballet Hispánico, the nation’s largest Latine/x/Hispanic dance organization and recognized by the Ford ...

Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée.