A visually stunning reimagining of Bizet’s Carmen, the third animated feature from Sébastien Laudenbach tells a parallel ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sébastien Laudenbach's Viva Carmen, an animated retelling of Georges Bizet's famous opera Carmen, debuts in Cannes Directors' Fortnight this week and Deadline reveal a first clip. In ...

When Georges Bizet finished composing his opera “Carmen” in the summer of 1874, he was full of optimism about its prospects. “I have written a work that is all clarity and vivacity, full of color and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The 150th anniversary of Bizet’s death this year has not received much attention. Only aged 36, Bizet had ...

That proved to be Bizet’s unlucky number; 18 performances were also all his operetta La jolie fille de Perth (The Fair Maid of Perth) could sustain in 1867, although at least it did get a second ...

The story of the Spanish gypsy girl comes from Prosper Mérimée’s novella Carmen, published in 1845. It caught Bizet’s attention, and he proposed that he adapt it for opera with two leading Parisian ...

After the composer’s one-act opera Djamileh (1871), a director of Paris’s Opéra-Comique, Camille du Locle, suggested that Bizet collaborate with two of Paris’s leading librettists: Henri Meilhac and ...

The opera certainly proved entertaining — just not right away. Its commissioners at the Opéra Comique in Paris initially objected to the story of the cigarette-factory girl stabbed by a lover. The ...