On May 4, 1950, a collage of photos of the Metropolitan Opera Co. and those attending the performance were published in The Daily Oklahoman.

Ballet and Florentine Opera are both performing a "Carmen" May 16-18. But instead of fighting, they're collaborating on ...

For its 61st season, San Diego Opera announced today a three-show season that will feel both familiar and inviting to audiences: Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci,” Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” and ...

On Saturday at 1 p.m., hear the Metropolitan Opera's broadcast of "The Siege of Corinth" by Gioachino Rossini. The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues with ...

The Met's unforgettable production of Verdi's ancient Egyptian drama stars Liudmyla Monastyrska and Hui He. They share the title role of the enslaved Ethiopian princess caught in a love triangle ...

Of course, Akhmetshina is universally accepted as the Carmen of our time, in demand for the role in opera houses throughout the world. She will, this year, have made 100 performances of it. I have ...

Last year, when Damiano Michieletto's production of Carmen first appeared at the Royal Opera House, Aigul Akhmetshina's received great praise for her performance in the title role. This year ...

Damiano Michieletto's production of Carmen has returned to The Royal Opera House, and, staying true to the original, you can expect passion, lust and violence. I was invited to see Carmen on its ...

An opera in four acts, the story of Carmen is taken from Prosper Mérimée’s novella and turned into a libretto written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Premiered in 1875 at the Opéra ...

but at the close of the opera, her intervention almost takes the burden of her son’s murderous guilt away from him. The true foil to Carmen is Yaritza Véliz’s vividly sung Micaëla – José ...

The Royal Opera’s Carmen Credit: Alastair Muir There is fine support from other young artists from the Jette Parker programme, and the touches of whimsy in the staging (jokey on-stage captions ...