On this day in 2001, MTV premiered Carmen: A Hip Hopera, a genre-bending, culture-shifting reinterpretation of Georges Bizet’s classic opera Carmen—with a Hip Hop twist that made waves through both ...

You may remember Beyoncé’s Carmen: A Hip Hopera—if you don’t, google it. The MTV production set the bar for “hip hopera” (hip hop and opera) by completely changing the game. Now, Regina King is ...

Beyoncé's starred in several major productions but the first film was an MTV made for TV movie, Carmen: A Hip Hopera. The cast was all-Black and received fair reviews from critics. But MTV executives ...

Beautiful Racket Founder and singer Anniece Cousin performs at the nonprofit's festival in 2022. Two students involved in the music education nonprofit Beautiful Racket on stage at the organization's ...

(Photo by Rich Polk/WireImage), (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Recording Academy) Robert Townsend saw something special in Beyoncé during her very first audition. “I didn’t know Beyoncé ...

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The Springfield Symphony Orchestra is stretching into multiple genres and allowing budding musicians a chance to work with the professionals for its first concert of 2025 “Symphonic Fusion: ...

Hey all,<BR><BR>I was visiting my family in CT over the holidays and caught a radio commercial that said something like, "new music genres...Hip Hopera." And then they played about 30 seconds of what ...

Robert Townsend wanted to blindly hire Beyoncé to star as Carmen Brown in the MTV film, Carmen: A Hip Hopera, and watched Queen Bey “blossom” right before his eyes. In conversation with Lena Waithe ...

A first-time reader of William Shakespeare's plays is bound to voice one famous, 21st century complaint: "Is this even English?" Well, tonight, toss your 14-year-old self a bone with Bare Bodkin, Pen, ...

"I feel like each day I show up, and I bring my background, it continues to force the door open a little bit," he said. Friday, February 2, 2024 LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Nigerian American singer with a ...

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