You’ve heard the music of the opera “Carmen” on “Sesame Street” and in commercials, but that’s not why it’s been called opera’s guilty pleasure. Even the critics who panned Bizet’s opera at its ...

"No" never sounded as blasphemous as it did Thursday coming out of Carmen's painted lips. How dare she spurn Don Jose's worshipful adulation and choose death over love? Five hundred area high school ...

Before taking kids to an opera, Google the opera and give them the general story line so they know what is going to take place, and watch a few segments online, suggests Karen Flayhart, Opera Omaha's ...

An opera in four acts, the story of Carmen is taken from Prosper Mérimée’s novella and turned into a libretto written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Premiered in 1875 at the Opéra-Comique in ...