With a devilish sway of the hips and a hint of Andalusian flair, Carmen, the beautiful cigar-maker sets her sights on a soldier: Don José. Fate will do the rest. Composed to a libretto by Meilhac and Halévy based on Prosper Mérimée’s novella, the opera exploded the boundaries between tragedy and comedy with a modernity that caused a scandal at the time. Can we kill the one we love with love? The fiery beauty of Bizet’s music, where one unforgettable aria follows another, has worked year in, year out to make it the world’s most performed opera.

One of the most successful operas in the world will open the 99th Opera Festival in Verona in the summer of 2022: "Carmen" will transform the famous arena into a Seville full of joy and freedom. With "Carmen" George Bizet created an opera that caused scandal and uproar in 1875 just because of its title heroine. 3sat is showing the opera in a production by Franco Zeffirell with a brilliant cast of stars including Elīna Garanča and Brian Jagde.

Carmen, presented in a production at the French Opera House.

Seebühne (or floating stage), with its 7,000 seat open-air amphitheatre, is the location for the French composers most successful opera. With a set designed by British artist Es Devlin, who has designed sets for stars such as Adele, U2, Take That and Kanye West, the stage sits on the water near the shores of the stunning Lake Constance in Austria. This romantic and dramatic setting regularly welcomes opera lovers from all over the world, where the productions are extravagantly original and innovative and frequently use the waters of the lake as an extension of the stage.

The opera "Carmen" caused a scandal at its premiere at the Opéra Comique in Paris. Now the feisty Carmen returns to where it all began. Andreas Homoki sets his new production at the Opéra Comique in several eras. Mezzo-soprano Gaëlle Arquez shines in the leading role, with Louis Langrée as musical director. Georges Bizet's world-famous opera returns to the site of its world premiere in 1875. German director Andreas Homoki transposes the story of the beautiful Romani woman and the soldier Don José into three epochs corresponding to the opera: the year of its scandalous premiere; the time of the Resistance, which alludes to the secret love affair; and the present day with the #MeToo movement, which stands for the heroine's sexual emancipation. Recording from April 26, 2023 at the Opéra Comique, Paris

Bizet's masterwork, Carmen, directed for stage by the Spanish actress Núria Espert.Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in 1989.

This 2003 performance of Georges Bizet's 19th century opera Carmen was produced and directed by filmmaker and stage director Franco Zeffirelli, best known to many for the Academy Award-winning big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Shot at the Arena di Verona, the production features Marina Domashenko in the title role and music by the Orchestra of the Arena di Verona under conductor Alain Lombard.

With the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra and conductor Brian Castles-Onion, a gritty set design, sumptuous bold costumes, stunning choreography, and the inestimable direction of Gale Edwards and Bizet's glorious opera is brought to life like never before in this second Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour.

理查德·艾尔 (Richard Eyre) 制作的比才歌剧令人惊叹的新作品于 2009 年除夕夜首演，引起全城热议。埃琳娜·加兰卡 (Elina Garanča) 领衔主演，饰演剧中标志性的吉普赛人——一个每个男人都渴望但又决心忠于自己的女人 。 罗伯托·阿拉尼亚 (Roberto Alagna) 饰演唐·何塞 (Don José)，这位士兵被她的魔咒所迷惑，为爱牺牲了一切，但当斗牛士埃斯卡米洛 (泰迪·塔胡·罗兹饰) 激起了卡门的兴趣时，他被抛弃了。 这部《卡门》的舞蹈由明星编舞克里斯托弗·惠尔登 (Christopher Wheeldon) 创作，并由冉冉升起的艺术大师雅尼克·内泽-塞甘 (Yannick Nézet-Séguin) 指挥，从轻松愉快的开头到不可避免的悲剧高潮，将比才故事的各个方面带入了惊心动魄的生活。

Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the woman who lives by her own rules. Aleksandrs Antonenko is Don José, the soldier who falls under her spell, and Ildar Abdrazakov plays Escamillo, the swaggering bullfighter who takes Carmen away from Don José—an action that seals Carmen’s tragic fate. Anita Hartig is Micaëla, and Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Richard Eyre’s hit production, set in 1930s Spain.