“The Pearl Fishers” has taken its share of criticism since the opera’s 1863 debut at the Theâtre-Lyrique in Paris. Musical pundits have knocked its uneven score and sometimes awkward, far-fetched ...

J’Nai Bridges as Carmen. One of opera’s most indelible femme fatales returns to the stage of Palm Beach Opera tonight, along with one of the operatic community’s most high-profile rising stars. J’Nai ...

George Bizet’s “Carmen” is one of the most popular operas of all time with an unforgettable, vivid score. This weekend the Sarasota Opera opened its production of Bizet’s “other” opera, “Les Pêcheurs ...

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“Carmen” it isn’t. But while that crowning masterpiece would suffice by itself as Bizet’s ticket to immortality, the French master’s cruelly short career supplies several persuasive pieces of ...

Carmen is an opera in four acts by 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. The opera was ...

Three collaborating Ohio State music department programs open their two-night run of George Bizet’s opera “Les Pecheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers)” tonight at 8 p.m. Bizet is best known for his ...

When Bizet’s opera Carmen was first performed in 1875, critics reported the reception was "glacial." After only 33 performances the composer died suddenly, never to know of the international success ...

Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) is an opera in three acts by the French composer Georges Bizet, to a libretto by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré. It was premiered on September 30, 1863 at ...