Watching and listening to Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” at Sarasota Opera is a bit like sitting through a collection of opera’s greatest hits, all in one production, which likely explains its enduring ...

“Carmen,” Georges Bizet’s sprawling opera about a transfixing gypsy and the love triangle she cultivates, is one of the most performed operas in the world. This familiarity – a dose of comfort amid ...

She’s the one your mother warned you about. She’s beautiful, seductive, wily, fickle and elusive. Her name is Carmen, and she’s the centerpiece of the 1875 opera by Georges Bizet that opens the New ...