All that was apparent from the first few bars of Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmilla overture – an exhilarating way to begin a concert if ever there was one and played throughout with appropriate swagger, ...

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Kostas Smoriginas has had to withdraw from this performance. We are delighted that Christopher Purves will step in as Bluebeard for Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle. There ...

Bridgehampton boys basketball head coach Carl Johnson certainly doesn’t like to lose, but he was satisfied with how his team fared in the Mariner Athletic Club Holiday Classic at Southampton this past ...

Atas Smoriginas’s start to the season is proving that the Westhampton Beach forward knows how to ball. The junior, in just his second year on the team, has reached double-digit point totals in three ...

Set in Spain and sung in French, George Bizet’s Carmen has some of the most famous melodies and characters in any opera. The opera opens outside a cigarette factory in Seville, where soldiers have ...

Malmö Opera is set to live stream “Salome” on March 9, 2025. The showcase will star Laura Wilde in the title role alongside Lars Cleveman as Herod, Karin Lovelius as Herodias, and Kostas Smoriginas as ...

Welcome to your daily BBC Proms preview from BBC Music Magazine. It's Thursday 29 August, and today's Prom 52 features a performance of Georges Bizet's iconic opera Carmen. We recommend coming back to ...

Introduced by Andrew McGregor, Aigul Akhmetshina sings Carmen at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, with Piotr Beczala as her Don José and Antonello Manacorda conducting. Andrew is joined ...

Conjuring the oppressive Mediterranean heat and the claustrophobia of a fraying close-knit community, Damiano Michieletto’s new production of Bizet’s tragedy is rich with drama and potent With its ...

Damiano Michieletto is an opera director dedicated to subverting clichéd classics with provocative surprises, but with Carmen these surprises are gentle and non-disruptive. I won’t spoil things by ...