And then are the films of French animator Sébastien Laudenbach, whose expressionistic linework is so colorful and free that ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sébastien Laudenbach's Viva Carmen, an animated retelling of Georges Bizet's famous opera Carmen, debuts in Cannes Directors' Fortnight this week and Deadline reveal a first clip. In ...

Sébastien Laudenbach’s youth-oriented spin on Georges Bizet's opera is a welcome reminder that ambition can be fun.

Director Sébastien Laudenbach on adapting Bizet's Carmen for a young audience, why he set out to make a movie he'd never ...

A visually stunning reimagining of Bizet’s Carmen, the third animated feature from Sébastien Laudenbach tells a parallel ...

What can Bizet’s great opera – and the globetrotting singers who perform it – tell us about our own disconnected lives? Playwright Simon Stephens on how the characters and music of Carmen inspired his ...

Cape Town Opera's presentation of Georges Bizet's Carmen is red, funny and devastating: everything you didn't know opera ...

When Bizet’s opera Carmen was first performed in 1875, critics reported the reception was "glacial." After only 33 performances the composer died suddenly, never to know of the international success ...

The Gypsy heroine is an impossible, exotic male fantasy who is not one woman, but many. Her murder matters less than it should, argues opera director Mathilde López Directing Carmen is terrifying.

Richard Eyre’s stunning new production of Bizet’s opera was the talk of the town when it was unveiled on New Year’s Eve 2009. Elīna Garanča leads the cast as the iconic gypsy of the title—a woman ...

It’s regularly voted the most popular opera in the world, but Georges Bizet had no idea that his final work would become such a triumph, as Martin Buzacott explains. Prosper Mérimée was a French ...

Bizet came from a very musical family – his father was a composer and his mother was a pianist – and his own musical talents were obvious from an early age. In fact, he was such a talented child that ...