Yet, between these two immensely powerful performances, one was left searching for the nuanced love and passion that would ...

Opera directors like to reimagine the classics. Take Georges Bizet’s “Carmen,” which San Francisco Opera opened on Wednesday.

It’s a reminder that the fortune Carmen reads in the cards later in the opera predicts death for both of them. It’s also Zambello’s attempt to push her staging beyond the stereotypes that can easily ...

On the Arts host David Latulippe’s guests are SF Opera’s Jeffrey McMillan; Opera San José Director Michelle Ainna Cuizon and ...

George Bizet's 'Carmen,' is now on stage at San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House. Jonathan Tetelman, who sings the role ...

Carmen is not only a poor woman in a rich man’s world, but a gypsy – one of the most marginalised groups of any society, in any era. Clémentine Margaine as ...

The first surprise for me is that Carmen (the brilliant Monika Ledzion ... characters like the boy and the devil, which make this opera a new type of story. With an intriguing set design by ...

Young women of 14 might be shy and retiring, preferring to remain in the background in life — unless they happen to be opera ...

She does get her comeuppance, however, in an especially brutal way, in the end. San Francisco Opera, for the 35th time, returns to Georges Bizet's sultry, shocking tragedy from 1875, opening its final ...

The first words uttered by Carmen mark one of the greatest entrances in the history of opera and express all that need be said Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame With a devilish sway ...

Mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprises her remarkable portrayal of opera’s ultimate seductress, a triumph in her 2017 debut performances, with impassioned tenors Yonghoon Lee and Roberto ...