This is Drama Masks, a Bay Area performing arts column (full of mad ramblings, Oxford commas, and “theatre” with an “r-e”) ...

Director Francesca Zambello’s durable production thrives on the strength of lead singers Eve-Maud Hubeaux and Jonathan ...

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

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

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

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 ...

“It’s the gateway opera,” says Adam Turner, Virginia Opera’s artistic director, of “Carmen’s” enduring popularity. “For anyone who’s never seen an opera, this is the on ...

Opera directors like to reimagine the classics. Take Georges Bizet's "Carmen," which San Francisco Opera opened on Wednesday. While there have been a Nazi-era Carmen, a 20th-century Brooklyn ...