On the afternoon of Sunday, May 17, the Brooklyn-based Regina Opera Company presented the opera “Carmen” by Georges Bizet (1838-75). “Carmen” was Bizet’s masterpiece — an opera in four acts, with ...

Karyna Verezub is a convincing Carmen, playing the part with voluptuous cynicism, and Teimuraz Parulava is a suitably ...

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-Comique in ...

Reports of the “disastrous” premiere of Georges Bizet’s Carmen have been greatly exaggerated. Some in the Paris audience were shocked by the eponymous heroine’s forthright sexuality, and there were ...