Fiery flamenco joins brilliant singing to ignite Bizet's iconic opera, Carmen, in a vibrant Opera San José production conducted by Music Director Joseph Marcheso, with reimagined stage direction by ...

Bizet’s “Carmen.” The 19th century’s political unrest, social class, power struggle, murder, scandal, gender, race, now fits our 2lst century. Result? Rejiggering the opera as a film. Director’s ...

“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 ...

Dance, commonly relegated to the background, is the main character in “Carmen.” Choreographer and former ballet dancer Benjamin Millepied pushes the boundaries of dance in his feature directorial ...

Fiery flamenco joins brilliant singing to ignite Bizet's iconic opera, Carmen, in a vibrant Opera San José production conducted by Music Director Joseph Marcheso, with reimagined stage direction by ...

Exclusive: Mescal's first post-"Aftersun" role is this opera-inspired film set against the backdrop of the modern American immigration system. Millepied’s film stars Mescal and Melissa Barrera as an ...

Dancer-choreographer Benjamin Millepied makes his feature directing debut, collaborating with composer Nicholas Britell to recast the famous opera as an experimental fever dream on the U.S.-Mexico ...

Carmen, that beguiling Andalusian beauty created by a 19th-century French writer and afterwards made legendary by artists of different nationalities—in opera, dance, and film—continues to fascinate.

Dance is a primordial force in “Carmen,” French choreographer-turned-director Benjamin Millepied’s debut. Vaguely inspired by Georges Bizet’s 19th century opera of the same name, the evocative, if ...

There's a scene in French choreographer-turned-director Benjamin Millepied's adaptation of Georges Bizet's 1875 opera "Carmen" (out now in theaters) in which Masilda (played by Spanish actress Rossy ...

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