She lives in the here and now, one of the best-known heroines in operatic history, she makes sergeant Don José lose his mind, throwing his life into confusion. His attempts to make her tow the line fail because she can’t be tied down. They gradually drive each other into corners. Bizet’s music brings the differences in their perceptions of love and relationships into contrast again and again: Their downfall starts with light-hearted operetta music, but ends in tragedy. Barrie Kosky’s production quickly achieved cult status after it blasted onto the stage in  2015, and has lost none of its impact, taking the most performed opera in the world back to its roots - Opéra comique. The story’s interspersed and told using concise texts, steering us towards its tragic end. En route, romantic, amusing moments and wonderful dance routines share the stage. Kosky’s vision is fascinating, toying masterfully with usual Carmen and Spanish clichés.

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Carmen

Oper Frankfurt

Local favorites Steve and Allison Martin join HSO for festive selections from The Nutcracker, Leroy Anderson’s classic Sleigh Ride, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” and some of the Martins’ favorite songs, including “The Prayer,” “O Holy Night,” and “Ave Maria.”  Rounding out the family-friendly concert will be the audience favorite “Christmas Singalong,” full of well-known holiday carols! Steve and Allison are well known in West Michigan, having sung on opera stages and musical productions locally and around the country.  Allison received her Masters of Music from Michigan State University.  Steve holds a doctorate and master’s in music from Michigan State University.  He has taught at the college level and is now Director of Music and Fine Arts at Memorial Drive United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas.

Home for the Holidays 2025 Matinee: Steve & Allison Martin

West Ottawa High School Performing Arts Center

Immerse yourself in the fiery rhythms, vibrant colours, and intoxicating melodies of Spanish Impressions — a concert bursting with Iberian flair. From Chabrier’s exuberant España, alive with dance and drama, to Albéniz’s Suite Española No. 1, evoking the soul of Spanish cities through rich and poetic soundscapes, this program pulses with passion.

Bizet’s Carmen Suite brings operatic fire and unforgettable tunes, while Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio espagnol dazzles with its virtuosity and orchestral brilliance. Let the heat, heart, and spirit of Spain sweep you away in this unforgettable musical celebration.

Romantic Spain

Eglinton St. George's United Church

Obsession turns fatal in Gulfshore Opera’s presentation of one of the world’s most beloved operas — Carmen. Featuring a cast of world-class vocalists and the Naples Philharmonic under the direction of internationally acclaimed conductor Jorge Parodi, Carmen tells the tale of a striking and dangerous factory worker who yearns for love but instead creates jealously and obsession between the two men vying for her attention.

Carmen with the Naples Philharmonic

Artis—Naples

A  full scale grand production of Bizet’s Carmen, where freedom and jealousy clash in music’s most passionate tale. Set in the sun-drenched streets of Seville, this bold production honors Bizet’s original vision with rich Spanish scenery, dramatic visuals, and vivid storytelling. With unforgettable arias like the “Habanera” and the “Toreador Song,”Carmen is a thrilling journey through fiery independence, irresistible desire, and the high cost of passion.

Carmen ~ Punta Gorda

The Charlotte Performing Arts Center

How can we fail to be moved by the privilege of hearing, in one of the most beautiful concertos in the repertoire, a great Mozartian like Mitsuko Uchida? Bizet's first symphonic steps and a new work by Anders Hillborg accompany this moment of grace.

Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä

Philharmonie de Paris

Freedom, Fervor, and Fate in a Bold Production That’s True to the Classic

Gulfshore Opera proudly presents a vibrant staging of Georges Bizet’s Carmen—a timeless story where the thrill of freedom collides with the dangers of possessive love. Set in 1830 amid the sun-drenched streets and bustling plazas of Seville, this production honors Bizet’s original spirit with traditional Spanish scenery, richly hued costumes, and bold, dramatic visuals that capture the opera’s fiery soul.

In the title role, Gulfshore Opera is thrilled to feature acclaimed mezzo-soprano Lisa Marie Rogali, has been praised for her “warm, nuanced voice” and “spontaneity” on the stage. A rising star, Rogali has performed with leading companies across the country, including Virginia Opera, Minnesota Opera, Detroit Opera, and Sarasota Opera. Her captivating artistry and powerful stage charisma promise a Carmen who is both irresistibly free-spirited and emotionally magnetic.

Florida SouthWestern State College

The 5,500 pipes of The Bridgewater Hall organ sing as Associate Artist Jonathan Scott performs a programme of some of the greatest music from the world of opera.

Jonathan Scott: The Organ at the Opera

The Bridgewater Hall

A Celebration of Spirit brings together masterworks that highlight the vitality and diversity of the human experience. Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 is based on a play by Ibsen that tells the story of a young man’s journeys in search of family redemption. Bizet’s Carmen Suite No. 1 features excerpts from his well-known opera Carmen, in which the protagonist is a gypsy woman who experiences challenges and misfortune but whose humanity shines through the story. Finally, Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite transports us into a world of wonder, tradition, and imagination, marking the seasonal shift with timeless melodies.

A Celebration of Spirit

The Orpheum Theatre

Experience a night of rhythmic passion and orchestral storytelling. Bizet’s Suite No. 1 from Carmen ignites with fiery Spanish melodies and drama. Montero’s Latin Concerto blends vibrant Latin rhythms with lush melodies and rich textures. The evening concludes with Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe, a stunning masterpiece of Greek myth, filled with lyrical beauty and sensuous dance.

Shelley Conducts Carmen and Daphnis and Chloe

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

The November darkness may be thick, but we get to enjoy a dazzling opera gala with world-renowned tenor Jonas Kaufmann. This unique, generous evening offers familiar opera favourites, together with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jochen Rieder.

Opera Gala with Jonas Kaufmann

Göteborgs Symfoniker

With a lush score and instantly recognisable arias, Carmen follows a fiercely independent woman whose passionate life ignites obsession and jealousy, leading to tragic consequences.

Susie Sainsbury Theatre

The Dance Symphony triptych includes ballets inspired by the music of three 19th-century composers: Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin, and Georges Bizet. These choreographies offer an opportunity to explore the diverse relationships between dance and Romantic music.

Symphony of Dance

Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera

The RCS Chamber Orchestra return to the Stevenson Hall, under the baton of Donnie Deacon. The concert opens with two works written when both their composers were just 17: Mendelssohn’s Overture from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with its magical depictions of fluttering fairy wings and scampering feet (and Bottom’s comedic brays); and Mozart’s Symphony No.25, composed in 1773.

RCS Chamber Orchestra

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Sacred music was never meant to be this much fun! “Part monk, part hooligan” was how one contemporary described the French composer Francis Poulenc, and they might have been talking about his Gloria too: a huge, irreverent shout of joy for a great chorus.

The City of London Choir joins the RPO and conductor Daniel Hyde to raise the roof today; first, though, there’s another choral blockbuster from France (this time by Lili Boulanger), music reminiscent of a holiday in Provence from the composer of Carmen, and Debussy’s beautiful moonlit serenade.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Cadogan Hall 

Sacred music was never meant to be this much fun! ‘Part monk, part hooligan’ was how one contemporary described the French composer Francis Poulenc, and they might have been talking about his Gloria, too: a huge, irreverent shout of joy for a great chorus. The City of London Choir joins the RPO and conductor Daniel Hyde to raise the roof today; first, though, there’s another choral blockbuster from France (this time by Lili Boulanger), music reminiscent of a holiday in Provence from the composer of Carmen and Debussy’s beautiful moonlit serenade. We also hear not one but two musical letters from America. Everyone loves the deep emotion of Barber’s Adagio – but when you hear soprano Sally Matthews sing Knoxville, his tender memoir of a vanished youth, we think you’ll fall in love all over again.

Poulenc's Gloria

Experienced amateur musicians share the stage with the Philharmonic Orchestra, performing a diverse program from Gounod to Howard Shore. From French esprit and virtuoso timbres to epic film music—their collaborative music creates a sound full of energy and diversity.

Participation Concert 2025

Globe Coburg

Get ready for a grand tour of Europe with beloved travel expert Rick Steves as your guide. Rick Steves’ Symphonic Europe is a one-of-a-kind concert event that combines breathtaking symphonic music with stunning video from Rick’s acclaimed PBS travel series—projected above the orchestra in high-definition and synchronized live with the music.

From the noble beauty of Elgar and the rhapsodic sweep of Smetana’s The Moldau to the joyful grandeur of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy and the iconic charm of Strauss’s Emperor Waltz, each piece in this globe-trotting program evokes a different place, tradition, or cultural landmark. Rick Steves appears on screen throughout the concert, sharing personal insights and stories that deepen the audience’s connection to each work and destination.

Rick Steves’ Symphonic Europe

Ford Community & Performing Arts Center

True to its mission of promoting and raising awareness of classical music, the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie travels across the Occitanie region in various formations.

COR-des Quartet

La Tuilerie

Join us for Bizet’s irresistible tale of seduction, obsession and possession. It’s one of the most popular and celebrated operas ever written.

One for everyone’s bucket list, join us for Bizet’s irresistible Carmen — a timeless tale of seduction, obsession and possession, and one of the most popular and celebrated operas ever written.

London Coliseum

Coffee Concert No. 2 »On the Road Through Europe«

Volkshaus Jena

A tempestuous heart. A fatal attraction. Seductive music. This is Bizet’s iconic Carmen—the story of a fiery woman who dances to her own rhythm, a soldier ensnared by her captivating spirit, and the jealousy that propels them toward tragedy. Featuring some of opera’s most passionate melodies, from the “Habanera” to the “Toreador Song,” Carmen explodes with energy.

Bizet’s Carmen

Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center

The nights are drawing in and the sea’s getting distinctly chilly – what better time for a concert full of summer sunshine from conductor Nodoka Okisawa and the London Philharmonic Orchestra? Ravel opens his book of fairytales, and conjures sounds of pure enchantment. The young Bizet pours all his genius into a symphony that seems to dance and glow with sun-kissed melody (you can tell that this is the composer of Carmen). And the phenomenal 19-year-old violinist Leia Zhu weaves her spell in Prokofiev’s shimmering First Violin Concerto: believe us, it’s going to be magical.

Leia Zhu plays Prokofiev

Brighton Dome

Congress Theatre

Home Game 01: Leopold Hager Conductors Fund

Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg

On the podium this evening, we welcome home our own honorary conductor Michael Schønwandt, who has chosen a few French favorites, among other things, and there will also be room for a world premiere in the program.

French favorites and a cello concerto

Aalborg Central Waterfront

Bizet’s fiery masterpiece of seduction, obsession, and tragedy stars two of today’s leading mezzo-sopranos as the title heroine, whose irresistible allure drives the soldier Don José to destruction. Isabel Leonard brings her smoldering take to the Met for the first time, opposite tenors Michael Fabiano and Matthew Polenzani, and Aigul Akhmetshina, praised by The New Yorker for the “fresh, ferocious energy” of her Carmen in the 2023–24 season, reprises her star-making portrayal, alongside tenor Michael Fabiano.

Lincoln Center

The Göppingen Youth Symphony Orchestra is one of the ensembles offered by the Göppingen Municipal Youth Music School. It has won prizes in numerous competitions and is regularly invited to take part in international festivals. At the IX New York International Music Festival in Carnegie Hall, the Göppingen Youth Orchestra was awarded the gold medal. The ensemble has been featured on radio and television on numerous occasions. The conductor has been Martin Gunkel, City Music Director since 1989. The ensemble aims to promote children and young people's musical development and offer them the opportunity to play sophisticated orchestral music through the development of traditional and modern orchestral works. Furthermore, national prizewinners of the "Jugend musiziert" competition are given the opportunity to perform as soloists in concerts. Concert tours and international youth exchanges have taken the Göppingen Youth Symphony Orchestra to Spain, France, Norway, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Latvia, Great Britain, and the USA on numerous occasions.

Göppingen Youth Symphony Orchestra

Mozarteum Foundation

Georges Bizet’s titular heroine is as captivating a character as any in the history of opera. The different interpretations of Carmen are legion: we have the seductress, the personification of forbidden yearning, the standard bearer for the “eternally female” in the brutal battle of the sexes, the anarchist unfettered by bourgeois angst and compulsions, the archaic clairvoyante seeing her own death in the cards - yet free, as she does not dread her destiny. Few opera heroines are so open to interpretation and hence so able to serve as a mirror held up to society.

Deutsche Oper Berlin

"Luminous rays emanated from the Mass de Sainte Cécile. At first, one was dazzled, then enchanted, then overwhelmed." Thus, Camille Saint-Saëns bowed in 1855 before the latest coup of his colleague Charles Gounod. With the Mass of St. Cecilia, Gounod paid homage to the patron saint of sacred music. 

Guest performance in Dresden Concert for the 20th anniversary of the Kirchweihfest

Frauenkirche Dresden

Living life on her own terms in sultry Seville, the drama starts when Carmen catches the eye of the soldier, Don José, and desire quickly turns into obsession. Add in the swagger of star bullfighter Escamillo, a touch of jealousy, and one of the most iconic scores in opera history.

Tennessee Theatre

Copland & Bizet

University of Nevada

The twentieth-century French composer Francis Poulenc has been characterized as half monk, half “bad boy,” equally at home in the cathedral service and the cabaret show. These two worlds collide in his colorful setting of the Gloria, performed with the Huntsville Community Chorus and Huntsville-based soprano Kristine Biller. Tonight’s program belongs to Paris altogether, really – including the beloved tone-poem The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Paul Dukas, made famous in Walt Disney’s Fantasia.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Von Braun Center

A musical journey connecting Sister Cities St. Louis and Lyon.

“French Impressions: A Tale of Two Cities”

Washington University in St. Louis

«L'amour est un oiseau rebelle», sings Carmen in Georges Bizet’s opera of the same name. Mats Ek, the Swedish dance legend, made Carmen the heroine of a ballet at the Cullberg Ballet in 1992. He based it closely on the novella by Prosper Mérimée, which also forms the basis for the opera, in which Don José tells the story of Carmen from his death cell. Playing with classic gender roles, Mats Ek avoids common Carmen clichés and finds a deeply human interpretation. Another strong female figure is at the center of Dani Rowe’s choreography. After a career as a dancer with the Australian Ballet and the Nederlands Dans Theater, the Australian-born choreographer now heads the Oregon Ballet Theater. She is creating her first choreography for the Ballett Zürich, set to the music of Mussorgsky’s «Bilder einer Ausstellung», in the orchestral version by Maurice Ravel.

Rebel Birds

Zurich Opera House

What operatic subject could be more fitting for the Tobacco Quarter than the story of Carmen—the freedom-loving woman who works in a tobacco factory and conquered the world with her fiery love? Georges Bizet's world-famous melodies resound here in a chamber music setting—in a place where tobacco was once actually processed.

Croissants for breakfast

Tobacco Quarter Hall 1

Composed in 1859 while Bizet, aged twenty, was staying at the Villa Medici, Don Procopio is a light and sparkling opera in the tradition of bel canto and Italian comedy. Inspired by Donizetti's Don Pasquale and influenced by Rossini, it blends social satire with musical vivacity.

The plot, set in Naples, tells the story of a young woman who thwarts the plans of her uncle, who wants to marry her off to an old miser to preserve his fortune. She will seek to ridicule the plotters in order to impose her own destiny, in a joyful ending.

Don Procopio

Opéra-Théâtre Clermont-Ferrand

Bizet’s sizzling epic of dark passion, Carmen, tells the story of a fierce woman who lives life on her own terms – and the men who can’t let her go. Don José, a soldier drawn into her orbit, abandons everything for Carmen’s love, only to find himself consumed by jealousy when her attentions shift to the dashing bullfighter, Escamillo. With its twisting tale of romance, deceit, and disaster set to magnetic melodies, Bizet’s masterpiece, Carmen, has become one of the world’s most popular operas. Featuring some of the most popular music to ever grace the opera stage, Carmen brings every aspect of Bizet’s thrilling tale to life, from its tantalizing beginning to its devastating climax. Under the baton of Adam Turner (Toledo Opera’s Il Trovatore, and Roméo & Juliet), Toledo Opera’s vibrant original production is not to be missed.

Valentine Theatre

“Love stays away, you wait and wait; when least expected, there it is!” 
She is said to seduce all the men with her free-spiritedness and her Spanish folklore, as she sings “Love is a rebellious bird”… Until she is killed by one of the men.

“Is Carmen really the free, independent woman we think she is, or is she rather the prisoner of the very myth of the free, independent woman? Isn’t it precisely the men who attribute this free-spiritedness to her, so that their conquest of her is all the more rewarding? Carmen tries to make decisions that go in an unexpected, unconventional direction. But is that the definition of freedom? Isn’t the consistent decision to go against convention also a kind of straitjacket?” (Lotte de Beer)

Volksoper Wien

A foul love, passion, jealousy, cruelty, and murder—the legendary story of Carmen and Don José is told here as purely and realistically as the French
adventurer and author Prosper Mérimée wrote it in 1845. The famous music from Georges Bizet's opera resonates in Tscho Theissing's sophisticated arrangements. The wonderful melodies that Bizet wrote for Carmen and Don José remain virtually unchanged, but are arranged here for just three—albeit phenomenal—musicians, who are occasionally allowed a brief excursion into the musical present.

CARMEN! – the true story

Stadttheater Klagenfurt

To round off the summer, the Munich Radio Orchestra will travel to the southern German regions for music festivals and concert series featuring international guests. In a Beethoven-Bizet program, star pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard will present Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto. At the helm will be Corinna Niemeyer, one of six female conductors performing with the Munich Radio Orchestra in the 2025/26 season.

Bluval International Music Festival

Joseph von Fraunhofer Hall

Jim Cornelison, famed for singing the Star-Spangled Banner, steps off the ice and joins Maestro Stephen Alltop and the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra to puck drop the 2025/2026 Season!

An opera afternoon﻿

Elmhurst Christian Reformed Church

Weingarten season

DORMERO Hotel Weingarten

Ravel’s jazz-fueled Piano Concerto in G Major fits Alice Sara Ott “like a custom suit,” raves The New York Times. Ott presents the glittering score alongside Ravel’s magnificent Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Bizet’s fiery Carmen Suite and Camille Pépin’s shimmering Celestial Waters, led by esteemed conductor Mikko Franck, expand upon the French theme.

Ravel Piano Concertos & Suite from Carmen

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

In connection with the World Exhibition in 1878, Cavaillé-Coll builds an organ in the Trocadéro Palace, close to where the Eiffel Tower was later built. This is where Widor himself premiered his 6th organ symphony: The 5-movement symphony, which we here in Odense present on the Carl Nielsen Hall's concert organ; built by Marcussen & Søn.
Charles Bizet was a child prodigy, but died early, already at the age of 36. Before that he had composed one of the world's greatest operas, Carmen, among many other things.

Bizet & Widor

Odense Concert Hall

A suddenly awakened desire throws Sergeant Don José off his usual path. A woman who unexpectedly throws a flower at his feet gives him access to a world he had previously closed off to. The woman's name is Carmen, and she is a social outsider. What she wants, she takes; when she loves, she does so with every fiber of her being. A coincidence brings Carmen and José together, or perhaps a misunderstanding. For José, erotically inexperienced, believes that the flower thrown at him has attracted Carmen's attention. To be with her, he accepts military demotion and imprisonment; in fact, he ultimately risks his entire civil existence for a relationship with Carmen. But after a short time, she has had enough of him and wants to break up with him. Carmen uncompromisingly asserts her right to freedom and self-determination.

Theater Lübeck

Richmond audience favorite Chia-Hsuan Lin returns to begin the new season with music by Taiwanese American composer Ke-Chia Chen. “Lyrical and delicate,” is how The Philadelphia Enquirer has defined her sound. A Lasting Bond is a galloping, soaring hymn to a vanishing native culture. The sultry passion and unforgettable melodies of Carmen beguile throughout the orchestral suites drawn from Bizet’s mesmerizing masterwork. The Concert Piece for Four Horns by Robert Schumann is one of the most unique concertos in the repertoire, and one of the most thrilling especially when performed by four of music’s top players: The American Horn Quartet. “The finest brass chamber ensemble in the world,” declares the American Record Guide.

The Passion of Carmen

Dominion Energy Center

Kick off the new season in style! Superstar mezzo-soprano and 2025/26 CSO Artist-in-Residence Joyce DiDonato joins Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and the CSO for a celebratory program of vocal pieces by Richard Strauss and Georges Bizet, stirring overtures by Weber and Wagner and selections from Mendelssohn’s enchanting A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Walk the red carpet and toast to the start of another incredible season.

Joyce DiDonato & the CSO

The 2025-26 Season opens with fanfare as Music Director Jonathon Heyward joins violinist Joshua Bell for the annual celebration of the BSO's work across the state, including education and community programs.

Gala

Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

The Music Center at Strathmore

Be transported to Paris for two nights of music under the stars! Love Letter is back this fall at the Forest Theater in Carmel. Featuring American in Paris, Amélie, Beauty and the Beast, The Adventures of Tin Tin, Phantom of the Opera, Ratatouille and more!

Love Letter to Paris

Forest Theater

 Violin superstar Joshua Bell joins the Oregon Symphony for the grandest of season openings!  One of the most celebrated, most award-crowned artists of our day, he shines in Saint-Saëns’ Violin Concerto, lifting you into the stratosphere of the instrument’s register. Stravinsky’s sumptuous Suite from The Firebird is filled with the stuff of fairytales: a prince, captive princesses, the Firebird’s magic feather, and an evil ogre. Vibrant colors and rich harmonies glitter and pulse, ending with the gossamer Lullaby and a shimmering climax.

Joshua Bell Plays Saint-Saëns

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

New York City Opera returns in September to perform a fully staged version of the beloved Bizet classic, Carmen. Glorious melodies bring to life the story of the tempestuous yet irresistible seductress Carmen and her hapless lover Don José is one of the most famous operas of all time.

Bryant Park

With this concert, we celebrate the opening of the Nikolaisaal Potsdam concert hall 25 years ago. The text of this musical reading is based on a novella by Karen Blixen, which explores piety, sensuality, gratitude, and a phenomenal feast. The reading will be by German Film Award and Grimme Award-winning actress Katja Riemann.

Katja Riemann reads “Babette’s Festival”

Nikolaisaal

19th Wind Music Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic

Felsenreitschule

YSP Closing Concert — Mozarteum Orchestra · Cimento

House for Mozart

An all-French programme whose first half – 150 years after the composer’s death – celebrates the bright, exotic colours conjured by Bizet. As well as a suite from his incidental music for ‘The Girl from Arles’, we hear the fantasy for violin and orchestra featuring music – including the famous ‘Habanera’ – from his best-loved opera, reimagined with explosive virtuosity by Sarasate. South Korean violinist Inmo Yang makes his Proms debut in the seductive, mercurial mantle of Bizet’s Gypsy-heroine. Saint-Saëns’s spectacular Symphony No. 3 puts the 9,999 pipes of the Royal Albert Hall organ (nicknamed the ‘Voice of Jupiter’) in the spotlight at the climax of this monumental work, and there’s more musical drama from gods and sea monsters in Augusta Holmès’s tone-poem Andromède.

Saint-Saëns’s ‘Organ’ Symphony

Royal Albert Hall

Bizet Celebration – Nostalgia V

Festival-Zelt Gstaad

Opening Concert Of Špilberk Festival

Park of the Špilberk Castle

Step into the sultry streets of Seville, where desire and danger intertwine in Bizet’s timeless masterpiece. At its heart is the fiery Carmen, whose seductive charm ensnares the heart of a young soldier, only to lead them both toward an inevitable clash of honor, love, and tragedy. With its electrifying drama and iconic score, featuring unforgettable melodies like the “Habanera” and the “Toreador Song,” Carmen is a celebration of freedom, passion, and fate. A must-see for seasoned opera lovers and first-time attendees.

Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts

This programme spans deep emotion and playful ingenuity, performed by the distinguished NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra under the direction of virtuoso violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky.

NFM Leopoldinum: Bizet’s Carmen Suite

Usher Hall

The 105th Holiday Afternoon Concert

Tokyo Opera City Tower

A magnificent success story continues here – because "Mozart y Mambo" can do even more! This evening, Sarah Willis and the Havana Lyceum Orchestra present a unique blend of works by Mozart, Bizet's "Carmen," and Cuban compositions. Their approach to the works of European classical music: not overly intellectual and analytical, but fresh, passionate, and from the gut. Sarah Willis likes to say: "This is one of my favorite orchestras in the world." The celebrated horn player and the Cubans have since grown together into an artistic family and have already brought several of their own programs to the Rheingau Music Festival. Always with classical music, but always with a touch of Cuba in their luggage: With beguiling rhythms, the music in these concerts starts dancing and sweeps the audience along!

Sarah Willis, horn & moderation Havana Lyceum Orchestra José Antonio Méndez Padrón, direction

Friedrich-von-Thiersch-Saal

Prominent visit to Güstrow: The LJO performs with the Vienna Philharmonic’s principal harpist Anneleen Lenaerts.

The Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Youth Orchestra

Ernst-Barlach-Theater

George Bizet's timeless work, Carmen, combines a powerful theme with absolutely iconic music. One emotional melody follows another, and you can hear the colourful orchestras, the sophistication of the parts, the rhythmic dances and the songs.

Czech mezzo-soprano Ester Pavlů will perform as Carmen. She belongs to the role, both on domestic and European stages, just like a red rose.

Don José will be played by the most sought-after tenor of today, Joseph Calleja. It will be his first appearance at the Krumlov Festival.

The trio of exceptional voices will be joined by the local baritone Svatopluk Sem.

IMF Český Krumlov: Passionate Carmen (opera, ballet)

Brewery Garden, Český Krumlov

The BPO presents a free, outdoor concert at Academy Park in Lewiston.

Academy Park, Lewiston

Academy Park

Fiery passion has a name in music history: Carmen! Georges Bizet's opera has become a musical synonym for love, joie de vivre, and fatalism – and for the rapturous enthusiasm for Spain that gripped all of Paris from the mid-19th century onward. The accordion, in turn, is France's secret voice of the heart and is closely intertwined with French savoir-vivre, with valse musette, and the blend of lightness and melancholy. When our featured artist Martynas Levickis and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen immerse themselves in this Spanish-French world, what naturally belongs together comes together.

Martynas Levickis, accordion The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen Omer Meir Wellber, conductor

The success story of one of the world's most renowned brass ensembles, Canadian Brass, has been going strong for over 50 years. Collaborative creativity, individually accomplished musical talent, and the desire to explore all the possibilities of a pure brass ensemble have characterized this ensemble since its founding in 1970. The musicians amaze with the unexpected facets of their instruments, their humorous entertainment, and they don't take themselves or their music too seriously. With their varied program, ranging from traditional pieces with an Iberian flavor to well-known melodies from Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen," they transport audiences to our focus country, Spain.

Canadian Brass: “La pasion española”

Eberbach Abbey

Where the emperor once strolled, we are preparing the large Kurpark stage for an evening with Spanish flair: In a beautiful atmosphere, tenor Rolando Villazón and mezzo-soprano Gaëlle Arquez, together with the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid under the direction of Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra, will present a classical night with a Spanish repertoire that can only be experienced in this form here. Of course, works by Manuel de Falla and parts from Georges Bizet's "Carmen" will be included – a dazzling work that has lost none of its popularity and expressive diversity to this day. But singing isn't the only thing that plays a role this evening: with Spanish orchestral works, the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid will demonstrate all of its talent and transport the audience to Southern Europe with its sounds. Fans of Spanish music culture and all those who aspire to become fans of Spanish music culture should definitely not miss this open-air classical music event in Wiesbaden's Kurpark!

Spanish Classical Night

Kurpark

“From Bohemia to the end of the world” – that's how one could articulate the successful artistic career of tenor Petr Nekoranec, who made his debut in South Africa in August 2024 while in March 2025 he will travel to Brisbane, Australia to make his debut in the Queensland opera house as Don Ramiro in Rossini’s La cenerentola. Petr was born in Nové Dvory by the City of Polná, studied singing in Pardubice, Munich, and New York, performed in Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Bayreuth, Florence, Teatro Real in Madrid, Warsaw, São Paulo, Brazil, etc. He is also a popular guest of French opera houses such as the Théâtre du Capitole v Toulouse a Opéra national de Lorraine v Nancy. In July 2024 he made his debut at the famous festival in Aix-en-Provence. He is a soloist at the National Theatre Opera, where he added his first ever Rodolfo in Puccini's La bohème in the 2024/25 season to the roaster of his many beautiful roles.

Petr Nekoranec and guests: Night at the Castle

Castle Courtyard, Polná

Join your Colorado Symphony for a musical evening under the stars at the Arvada Center Outdoor Amphitheater in this tribute to Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops.

A Tribute to Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops

Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities

One of ClassicFM’s “30 under 30” Rising Stars, Violist Jordan Bak performs Carl Stamitz’s Viola Concerto. First discovered and performed in the 1930’s, Bizet’s Symphony No. 1 in C Major was completed when the composer was just 17 years old. Beethoven’s only full-length ballet, The Creatures of Prometheus, was one of his first works to be performed in the United States. Source Code by Jessie Montgomery centers on a melody based on syntax derived from Black spirituals.

Beethoven & Bizet

Detroit Country Day School - Upper School

Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Parish

First United Methodist Church,Plymouth

Congregation Shaarey Zedek

The Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra kick off the Prom Season with a joyous, fun filled, "last night of the Prom's style" concert for all.

Cue Music! Lets get this party started

Huddersfield Town Hall

A warm southerly breeze blows through the palace courtyard: At its second Ludwigsburg open-air concert, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, together with Colombian-American conductor Lina González-Granados and Spanish violinist Leticia Moreno, creates an atmospheric "Spanish Night." The orchestra begins by transporting the audience to Seville, the setting of "Carmen." George Bizet's interpretation of a "Spanish" musical language resulted in many catchy melodies that quickly became audience favorites. Less popular, however, is Maurice Ravel's highly virtuosic concert rhapsody "Tzigane" – a piece of cake for the finger-tapping acrobat Leticia Moreno, who also shines expressively in Camille Saint-Saëns' virtuoso piece. With excerpts from the ballets "El amor brujo" (Love Spell) and "The Three-Cornered Hat" by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leads the visitors of the "Spanish Night" in the palace courtyard on an exhilarating journey to the musical fireworks of the Blooming Baroque.

Spanish Night

Ludwigsburg Residential Palace

A work of youth, another of absolute youth: if Beethoven is 34 years old at the time of this instrumental feast that is the Triple Concerto , where each soloist gives his all in his part, Bizet is exactly half his age (17 years old!) when the miracle of his Symphony in C is accomplished  ; a page full of sunshine and languid reveries, where the National shines naturally.

Georges Bizet

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 21, 2025 - Mar 27, 2026

Carmen · Theater Lübeck

Oct 25, 2025 - Jun 12, 2026

Carmen · Deutsche Oper Berlin

Oct 28, 2025 - Jan 23, 2026

Carmen · The Metropolitan Opera

Dec 13, 2025 - Jan 31, 2026

Carmen · Oper Frankfurt

Dec 14, 2025

Christmas in New Orleans · Mid-Texas Symphony

Past events

Dec 13, 2025 - Jan 31, 2026

Carmen · Oper Frankfurt

Dec 13, 2025

Home for the Holidays 2025 Matinee: Steve & Allison Martin · Holland Symphony Orchestra

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