Eddie Chignara as narrator Balthazar in 'L'Arlésienne' at the Théâtre du Châtelet The tenor for the songs, Reinoud Van Mechelen, is less distinctive than Dran or Dubois, but the better numbers here ...

Bizet’s stage works have always attracted more attention than his orchestral music, an imbalance that Jean-Luc Tingaud’s latest disc with the RTÉ National Symphony attempts to address. It offers a ...

Philadelphia -- Fans of the opera Carmen will be delighted by the Philadelphia Ballet's staging of Bizet's classic as a ballet. Featuring World Premiere Choreography by Artistic Director Angel Corella ...

Georges Bizet was just 24 when he wrote his first full-scale opera. He soon wished that he hadn’t. The Pearl Fishers, wrote one caustic Parisian critic, had “neither fishermen in the libretto nor ...

The Cairo Opera Orchestra is to play two suites and a symphony by French composer Georges Bizet on Friday 6 February Conducted by Hisham Gabr, the Cairo Opera Orchestra is to transport its audience ...

Late in his career, Georges Bizet (zhorzh bee-ZAY) wrote some incidental music to the play "The Girl from Arles" (ARL), by Alphonse Daudet (doh-DAY). It's called "incidental" music, but it's ...

The Gypsy heroine is an impossible, exotic male fantasy who is not one woman, but many. Her murder matters less than it should, argues opera director Mathilde López Directing Carmen is terrifying.

It’s regularly voted the most popular opera in the world, but Georges Bizet had no idea that his final work would become such a triumph, as Martin Buzacott explains. Prosper Mérimée was a French ...