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 ...
Robert Townsend Recalls Beyoncé’s Audition for ‘Carmen: A Hip Hopera,’ Says She Was ‘Really Nervous'
Robert Townsend saw something special in Beyoncé during her very first audition. The acclaimed director recently opened up to Lena Waithe on Legacy Talk about casting the then-19-year-old singer in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Recalls Beyoncé’s Audition for ‘Carmen: A Hip Hopera,’ Says She Was ‘Really Nervous'
(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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