As soccer fans from around the world converge on North Texas for FIFA World Cup 2026, passion, drama and soccer are on stage ...

Soprano, composer, and educator Carmen Bell, founder of Authentic Opera Company, is presenting a new one-act opera at Kalamazoo College's Festival Playhouse on June 19 at 7 p.m. It's a Juneteenth ...

On June 5 and 6, Opera Arlington will present a reimagined, soccer-inspired production of Bizet’s Carmen, blending the passion of opera with the energy of the world’s most popular sport.

Director Sébastien Laudenbach on adapting Bizet’s Carmen for a young audience, why he set out to make a movie he’d never quite finish — and what failure can teach children. By Lily Ford “I think ...

Carmen is back – again. Opera Hong Kong’s fourth production of Georges Bizet’s masterpiece takes a bold approach by setting the story, not in 19th century Spain, but in 1970s Hong Kong, a fitting move ...

“Carmen,” Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera, can be a good first opera for novices. It’s a gripping story about vivid characters; it’s longish but not taxingly — about 210 minutes with intermissions (call it ...

Opera has long been defined by its formality, exclusivity and proximity to whiteness. At Xavier University of Louisiana, that narrative was actively challenged through a recent student-led production ...

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 ...

San Diegans may think they know the opera “Carmen,” but the San Diego Opera production of Georges Bizet’s tragedy that opened a three-day run Friday at the San Diego Civic Theatre is filled with ...

Director Keturah Stickann is neither a native San Diegan nor a current resident, but few San Diego Opera regulars have deeper ties to our local company. In leading Carmen, the Opera’s third production ...

San Diego Opera will close its season of classics next weekend with one of the world’s most popular operas, Georges Bizet’s 1875 tragedy “Carmen.” This will be the 11th production of “Carmen” in San ...

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 ...