Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music. 1405 Gillian Moore explores an exciting selection of new ...

Bizet was a French composer and pianist who, after studying at the Paris Conservatoire, found it difficult to be taken seriously as an opera composer. His early works were mostly ignored and he ...

Then, 150 years ago, in 1875, French composer Georges Bizet turned Mérimée’s novella into an opera that may have peaked in popularity but is still regularly performed today. Carmen made the ...

O pera directors like to reimagine the classics. Take Georges Bizet’s “Carmen,” which San Francisco Opera opened on Wednesday. While there have been a Nazi-era Carmen, a 20th-century ...

WORCESTER — If one were to ask what events marked the year 1875, a history book may say that the first Kentucky Derby was ...