Sebastien Laudenbach's animated Viva Carmen debuts at Cannes as a gateway for young audiences into opera, with tips for ...

Director Sébastien Laudenbach on adapting Bizet's Carmen for a young audience, why he set out to make a movie he'd never ...

And then are the films of French animator Sébastien Laudenbach, whose expressionistic linework is so colorful and free that ...

“Carmen,” Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera, can be a good first opera for novices. It’s a gripping story about vivid characters; it’s longish but not taxingly — about 210 minutes with intermissions (call it ...

Opera has long been defined by its formality, exclusivity and proximity to whiteness. At Xavier University of Louisiana, that narrative was actively challenged through a recent student-led production ...

First, the piece itself: Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera boasts some of the most seductive and adhesive music ever written for the stage—it’s all hooks from first bar to last. It boasts a whistle-able ...

The Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra parted ways with Connecticut Lyric Opera before announcing its 2025-26 season last year but is still very much in the opera business. The company toured its ...

With tunes almost everyone can recognize, Bizet’s Carmen is universally accepted as the most popular opera of all time. Not so well known is that the composer virtually died of disappointment after ...

A German tourist has died after a snake crawled into his pants and bit him as he watched a show in Egypt on a family vacation, German police said Monday. The 57-year-old man was watching the ...

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