The only mitigating factor for Bizet was that disappointment was not a new experience for him. Although he was only 36 years old, Carmen was the 30th of his operas, if one tallies complete, incomplete ...

Georges Bizet was just 24 when he wrote his first full-scale opera. He soon wished that he hadn’t. The Pearl Fishers, wrote one caustic Parisian critic, had “neither fishermen in the libretto nor ...

Eddie Chignara as narrator Balthazar in 'L'Arlésienne' at the Théâtre du Châtelet The tenor for the songs, Reinoud Van Mechelen, is less distinctive than Dran or Dubois, but the better numbers here ...

You have to wonder how Bizet would feel about our response to The Pearl Fishers, were he alive today. This three-act opera lasts around eighty minutes and has an exotic plot, rich orchestral imagery ...

Bizet was always ambivalent about the piano. He was, by all accounts, a superb player, yet he fretted that the public would primarily view him as a pianist rather than a composer, and therefore ...

It’s regularly voted the most popular opera in the world, but Georges Bizet had no idea that his final work would become such a triumph, as Martin Buzacott explains. Prosper Mérimée was a French ...

The Cairo Opera Orchestra is to play two suites and a symphony by French composer Georges Bizet on Friday 6 February Conducted by Hisham Gabr, the Cairo Opera Orchestra is to transport its audience ...

Bangkok Music Society presents its first full-choir concert of 2026, a musical journey with Georges Bizet, at Oriental Residence Bangkok, Witthayu Road, on Sunday at 3pm and 5pm. The BMS Choir is ...