When it comes to the public imagination, opera is a genre built on contradiction: exclusive yet ubiquitous. No member of that esteemed canon encapsulates this contradiction better than Georges Bizet’s ...

In a Seattle Opera production of “Carmen” years ago, Wall remembered being on stage as the tenor playing Don José created an electric moment, making a sudden but gentle contact with the soprano ...

“Carmen” is, in a word, problematic, but ballet companies and opera houses continue to stage versions of Bizet’s opera, a tale of a free-spirited Romani who seduces a soldier, only to be killed by him ...

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