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

Casting has been announced for Sarasota Opera’s 2025 Winter Opera Festival. Learn more about the upcoming festival, which is ...

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

A revival of Carmen opened last night at San Francisco Opera with some very fine singing and lively, brisk playing. Francesca Zambello's 2006 production is both pretty and functional, there is never a ...

The Wind Symphony is composed of talented student musicians who for the most part aren’t music majors and likely hadn’t ...

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

The resounding overture to “Carmen” provides its own argument as to the opera’s justified ... The speaking further grounds this opera with an appealing accessibility. We feel, thanks to music and ...

Leonard overcame a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad travel day to bring impeccable artistry to her Dec. 1 recital at ...

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

“The music is wonderful ... Don’t miss this opportunity to see this wonderful opera.” Virginia Opera’s “Carmen” plays Nov. 22 and 24 at the Dominion Energy Center, 600 E.

The opera opens in a world where unaccompanied ... the most beautiful and sought-after of them all. Carmen (singer/actor Rogali) establishes her preeminence in her very first song “Habanera ...