It’s regularly voted the most popular opera in the world, but Georges Bizet had no idea that his final work would become such a triumph, as Martin Buzacott explains. Prosper Mérimée was a French ...

The Gypsy heroine is an impossible, exotic male fantasy who is not one woman, but many. Her murder matters less than it should, argues opera director Mathilde López Directing Carmen is terrifying.

Bizet’s rarely heard opera returned to the Met for the first time in a century on New Year’s Eve 2015, in Penny Woolcock’s acclaimed new production. Star soprano Diana Damrau sings Leïla, the virgin ...

Bizet’s Les Pecheurs de Perles (The Pearlfishers) was composed 12 years before his masterpiece Carmen, but includes his popular tenor and baritone duet, Au fond du temple saint. Opera Australia opens ...