The overture to Bizet’s opera Carmen has accompanied the Formula One champagne-spraying podium tradition since the mid-90s. Since it was first televised in 1978, Formula One racing has become ...

When the curtain first came down on Georges Bizet’s Carmen, on March 3, 1875, nobody in attendance would have guessed that they had witnessed what would become admired as one of opera’s finest ...

Carmen by Bizet - Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra with soloists Magdalena Kozena , Jonas Kaufmann , Genia Kuhmeier and Kostas Smoriginas. Carmen must instill hope in the bosom ...

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 ...

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Michel Plasson conducts the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, chorus and principals in one of the best-loved operas ever composed. Angela Gheorghiu in the title role of Carmen with Inva Mula-Tchako as ...

Queen Bey meets Bizet in this expertly sung TV Habañera for the ages. Twenty years ago, Beyoncé hit the world’s TV screens around the world, singing an entertaining, and quite inspired, adaption of ...