carmen through the ages: 140 years of bizets opera - in pictures /

Bizet’s famed heroine first appeared in a novella by Prosper Mérimée in 1845. Thirty years later,Bizet adapted the story into an opera that has since become one of the world’s most loved, with the free-spirited Carmen at its heart. As the Royal Opera House revives its 2006 Francesca Zambello production, or we look at how different generations of singers possess interpreted the roleContinue reading...

Source: theguardian.com