Georges Bizet
Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man review – steamy dance thriller with a supercharged engine
Bourne’s 1950s potboiler has been beefed up for a larger venue. The result is classy, trashy – and deeply serious
Sanjoy Roy
12, Jun, 2022 @2:40 PM
Carmen review – Bizet’s opera goes on a camp bunny-hop with serious ambitions
Opera North’s colourful production zeroes in on female agency with Chrystal E Williams as a magnetic Playboy-styled Carmen
Erica Jeal
03, Oct, 2021 @10:23 AM
Carmen review – WNO unleashes free spirit on Brazil's favelas
A frenetic mix of gunrunners, drug gangs and slum workers assail feisty mezzo Virginie Verrez in Jo Davies’s interpretation of Bizet with added feminist verismo
Rian Evans
22, Sep, 2019 @12:35 PM
Carmen La Cubana review – revolutionary makeover is a bumpy but heady ride
This energetic, Cuban-ified version of Carmen Jones whizzes by, ricocheting from comedy to melodrama, intimacy to dancing crowds
Sanjoy Roy
03, Aug, 2018 @2:31 PM
The week in classical: Carmen; Changing Faces: Stravinsky’s Journey; Satyagraha – review
Performers enjoy a nightly workout in Barrie Kosky’s refreshing if flawed new Royal Opera production
Fiona Maddocks
11, Feb, 2018 @7:30 AM
Carmen review – Bizet meets Busby Berkeley
Big numbers and bohemian loucheness characterise Barrie Kosky’s uneven production
Tim Ashley
07, Feb, 2018 @12:06 PM
La Tragédie de Carmen review – opera on an unforgivingly small scale
Peter Brook’s take on Bizet squeezes all the famous tunes into an economic, stripped-down production for four, but demanded too much of these singers
Erica Jeal
05, Nov, 2017 @2:23 PM
Carmen with cha-cha-cha: adaptation with all Cuban cast opens in Paris
Reimagined in 1950s Cuba and directed by Christopher Renshaw, Carmen la Cubana will open at the Théâtre du Châtelet over 140 years after Paris debut
Kim Willsher in Paris
06, Apr, 2016 @6:00 AM
Les Pêcheurs de Perles review – inconsistently ravishing
With some superlative singing and an intelligent production, this Bizet opera should fly – but unfortunately the flaws in the work itself drag it back to earth
Seth Colter Walls
05, Jan, 2016 @10:06 PM
Carmen review – committed performances in slimmed-down version of Bizet's classic
A small cast is uniformly strong vocally and works hard to bring off this much-cut Carmen, in which sense and continuity occasionally suffers
George Hall
13, Aug, 2015 @1:31 PM
Matthew Bourne's The Car Man review – swaggering revival adds Broadway flair
Matthew Bourne’s slick repair shop staging of Bizet’s Carmen is full of sexual charisma and violent passion
Judith Mackrell
21, Jul, 2015 @1:00 PM
Carmen review – strong revival of Bieito's tough and intelligent production
Mezzo soprano Justina Gringyte captures Carmen’s reckless vulnerability superbly, Richard Armstrong handles the score with real authority
Martin Kettle
21, May, 2015 @12:38 PM
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