There’s not really much point in pondering too long on what makes Carmen one of the most popular operas ever written. First performed in 1875, Bizet’s opera has brilliant tunes that sing themselves in ...

Andreas Homoki’s clever ideas don’t quite survive the leap to Scotland but the singing is rich and the acting full of swagger It is easy to understand the temptation: staging a new Carmen at Paris’s ...

Appointed general director of the Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique in October 2021 by French President Emmanuel Macron, Louis Langrée, 62, launched his first season on Thursday, March 30. The ...

Last year the French Opera Comique visited the U. S. and proved, for one thing, that light opera cannot support itself in Manhattan without special assistance. One of the patrons of the French Opera ...

Last week, in Manhattan, the Little Opera of America, Inc., presented an Opera Comique, Mandragola. Those who attended were familiar with the Little Opera’s contention that the U. S. public will pay ...

DRESS REHERSAL: For Maison Lesage artistic director Hubert Barrère, the June 21 premiere of “Zémire et Azor,” the opéra-comique — a genre of French opera with dialogue as well as sung segments — will ...

The Beijing Music Festival (BMF) Arts Foundation announced a three-year cooperation project with French opera company Opéra Comique on Monday. According to BMF artistic director Zou Shuang, the ...

The Opéra-Comique in Paris is a bit like home to William Christie. The American conductor has directed 13 productions there since the historic 1987 exhumation of Jean-Baptiste Lully's lyrical tragedy ...