Tenor Stanislas de Barbeyrac Speaks Out After Palazzetto Bru Zane Promotes Wrong Tenor in ‘Carmen’ DVD / Blu-Ray Art

Tenor Stanislas De Barbeyrac has spoken out against the Palazzetto Bru Zane’s handling of its home video release of “Carmen.” The company revealed that it was releasing a special edition package to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the famed Bizet opera in a historic staging from 1875 from Opéra de Rouen Normandie. The video book includes one DVD and one {…}

Les Voix des Forges Announces 2024 Festival Programming ‘L’Amour est un Oiseau Rebelle’

France’s Les Voix des Forges has announced its programming for the summer of 2024 at the Festival de Musique Forges de Jaegerthal. The season opens with “L’Amur est un oiseau rebelle” will feature works by Verdi, Puccini, Bernstein, Bizet, and Gounod among others. Vocal performers include Camille Tresmontant, Guillaume Paire, Céline Mellon, Alexandra Hewson, Carole Meyer, and Rémi Ortega. They {…}

Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2024 Review: Carmen

(Photo: © Richard Hubert Smith/Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2024) The picnic hampers are packed, dinner jackets dry-cleaned, cufflinks wrangled, and drizzle forecast: the British country house opera season is back. It opens with a new production of Georges Bizet’s box-office stalwart “Carmen” from Glyndebourne Festival Opera, directed by Diane Paulus and conducted by Glyndebourne Music Director Robin Ticciati.  This latest version, {…}