Very few blushing brides choose to spend their honeymoon time almost lobbing the keeper for a goal at a major tournament but ...

Georges Bizet’s classic opera has gained a reputation for misogyny, but that’s not there in the original version, says the ...

Bizet loved the idea of an environmental story with a happy ending, so in April he made the long journey from his home in Paris to the tiny village of Tastubek and the port city of Aralsk, Kazakstan.

The fictional character of Carmen – the heroine of Bizet’s opera – attracts a range of labels which variously position her as seductress, femme fatale, sex addict, fate/ death obsessed ...

Bizet proposed they adapt a novella by Prosper Mérimée, Carmen. Having completed the orchestration by the summer of 1874, he was in no doubt about the quality of what he had written: “They make out ...

The new twist on Georges Bizet's old story, which was first performed in Paris in 1875, was the brainchild of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino theater director Cristiano Chiarot, ...

The Metropolitan Opera says its new production of “Carmen” aims at “reinvigorating the classic story.”. To that end, the director Carrie Cracknell has updated Bizet’s tale of a heedless ...

Bizet Georges Bizet wrote music for piano four-hands in 1871 that he called "Children's Games." Jeremy Denk and John Novacek think that means they're supposed to ACT like children.

Anti-Semitism caused the first defection from the Impressionist movement when the deeply prejudiced Pierre-Auguste Renoir broke off all contact with Jews and ended his relationships with Jewish ...