Carmen has long been a popular choice for figure skaters in competition. In 1988, Katarina Witt and Debi Thomas both famously skated to its music at the Winter Olympics. That’s because Georges Bizet’s ...
You’ve heard the music of the opera “Carmen” on “Sesame Street” and in commercials, but that’s not why it’s been called opera’s guilty pleasure. Even the critics who panned Bizet’s opera at its ...
Royal Opera House; St Martin-in-the-Fields; Barbican, London Aigul Akhmetshina steals the show in Damiano Michieletto’s uneven new 70s-set Bizet. And in a good week for world premieres, four composers ...
Calixto Bieito’s staging of Bizet’s masterpiece remains a calling card for ENO – dust, danger and late-Franco grit cutting against picture-postcard Seville. I’ve admired it here before on many ...