Georges Bizet News

Colorado Music Festival will present its 2023 summer concert season from June 29 through August 6 at Chautauqua Auditorium (900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, Colo.), offering 20 diverse performances of orchestral and chamber music by the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra and guest artists, alongside educational programming.

For the first time ever the Ukrainian National Opera is touring the UK and visiting Darlington Hippodrome in March with two of the most powerful operas of all time. 

Opera Naples, one of Naples' leading performing arts organizations, has announced tickets are on sale for the third annual Festival Under the Stars at Cambier Park. Conducted by Opera Naples Artistic & Music Director and Naples Cultural Ambassador Maestro Ramón Tebar, performances will take place March 21 - April 5, 2023.

In the latest edition of Jennifer Ashley Tepper's Broadway Deep Dive, we find out which shows have had the most Broadway debuts. Find out what made the list!

This month, the reader question was “What Broadway show has been revived the most?” Taking both plays and musicals into account, and considering works in repertory, these were the findings.

The Greek National Opera Ballet has announced its third production for the 2022/23 Season: a new production of the ballet Carmen, choreographed by the great Swedish choreographer Johan Inger and first presented by the Compañía Nacional de Danza, Madrid in 2015.

Western Piedmont Symphony will present MASTERWORKS: ORCHESTRAL BLOCKBUSTERS featuring the music of Quinn Mason, Georges Bizet, and Ludwig van Beethoven on Saturday, November 19, 2022, at 7:30 p.m. at P.E. Monroe Auditorium on the campus of Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory.

Two dazzling mezzo-sopranos take centre stage in the Canadian Opera Company's Carmen by Georges Bizet. The wildly popular opera draws audiences into a high-stakes game between soldiers, smugglers, and a superstar bullfighter, all vying for the attention of fiercely independent Carmen. Watch the trailer here!

Special Offer: Don't Miss CARMEN JONES at ETC!

Ensemble Theatre Company is presenting CARMEN JONES, music by Georges Bizet with book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, choreography by Lisa Ruffin, musical direction by William Foster McDaniel, and directed by Jonathan Fox. CARMEN JONES runs through Sunday, October 23, 2022 at The New Vic, 33 W. Victoria Street in Santa Barbara. See photos here!

Des Moines Metro Opera's General and Artistic Director, Michael Egel, has announced the complete repertory for the company's 2023 Festival Season.

Vancouver Opera is announcing a cast change to the opening production of its 2022-2023 season, Georges Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, in October.

Ensemble Theatre Company will present the first show of its 2022-23 Season, CARMEN JONES, music by Georges Bizet with book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, choreography by Lisa Ruffin, musical direction by William Foster McDaniel, and directed by Jonathan Fox. CARMEN JONES begins previews on Thursday, October 6. See photos here!

On the heels of a successful opening weekend and rave reviews for live productions of Rossini's Otello and Toshio Hosokawa's The Raven, Opera Philadelphia's Festival O continues this week with the first Opera on Film series, featuring more than 30 cinematic operas presented in 12 screenings at the Philadelphia Film Center.

Ensemble Theatre Company (ETC) presents the first show of its 2022-23 Season, CARMEN JONES, music by Georges Bizet with book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, choreography by Lisa Ruffin, musical direction by William Foster McDaniel, and directed by Jonathan Fox. 

Two dazzling mezzo-sopranos take centre stage in the Canadian Opera Company's Carmen by Georges Bizet.

Vancouver Opera have announced the opening of its 2022-2023 with a full-scale production of Georges Bizet's The Pearl Fishers in October.

Con el Acto II de El lago de los cisnes y Carmen, la Compañía Nacional de Danza (CND) se presentará nuevamente, después de cinco años, en la Sala Miguel Covarrubias del Centro Cultural Universitario para envolver al público en la magia, la pasión, el amor y la tragedia que emanan de estas obras, las cuales cumplen 145 y 55 años de su estreno, respectivamente. 

Lyric Opera of Chicago will hold auditions for solo dancers with significant stage experience for its upcoming production of Carmen, the classic opera by Georges Bizet, on Sunday, August 28, 2022. 

Every Sunday, starting July 3rd, at the Film Festival on Rathausplatz will be »State Opera Sunday«: every week, on the big screen directly in front of Vienna City Hall, brand new productions, productions from past seasons by the current management, and also some older performances from the genres of opera and ballet will be shown.