Sopranos always know how to make a triumphant entrance… watch Danielle de Niese’s fabulously bold performance of Bizet’s aria ‘Habanera’. A fantastically dramatic entry, a bold Bizet aria, and a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Spotlight Aigul Akhmetshina, performing now at the Met, shares her thoughts on what it takes to bring the famous Habanera to life. Critic’s Spotlight Aigul Akhmetshina, ...

Rinat Shaham has played the role of Carmen in hundreds of different productions all over the world. Loading Rinat's Carmen is unforgiving and gutsy — both in manor and voice — backed up by the Opera ...

Shoppers in Bradford have been surprised by a flashmob of operatic proportions. In this spontaneous public performance, caught on film last Friday, Broadway Shopping Centre erupts with song, as dozens ...

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 ...

Bizet came from a very musical family – his father was a composer and his mother was a pianist – and his own musical talents were obvious from an early age. In fact, he was such a talented child that ...

Opera Orlando concludes its fifth-anniversary MainStage series in person and in grand style with Georges Bizet's fiery masterwork Carmen. This ever-popular opera captivates from its opening notes to ...