By Charles T. Downey, Published: April 13 An opera company is unlikely to have a triumph, in the critical sense, by staging “Carmen,” but Georges Bizet’s story of passion and murder will fill a house. It worked for Virginia Opera, which staged the opera on Friday...
By Emily Cao on April 13, 2014 Things were very fiery this past Friday night at the GMU Center for the Arts as the Virginia Opera brings a new and exciting full-scale production of Bizet’s Carmen, one of the most renowned and certainly most dramatic operas in history,...
Bizet classic comes to George Mason by Samantha Schmieder Special to the Gazette The famous opera “Carmen” will finish its four-city trip around Virginia with a final performance in Fairfax at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts on Friday, April 11, and...
Virginia Opera moves the classic seduction of “Carmen” to 1950s Spain. by Rich Griset No matter how hard she tries, Ginger Costa-Jackson can’t get away from “Carmen.” It isn’t that she’s ungrateful — getting cast in the title role is a...
by Montague Gammon III A fast rising young Metropolitan Opera star-in-the-making mezzo who likes “once upon a time … happy ending” stories – Cinderella (La Cenerentola, Rossini) is the role Ginger Costa-Jackson most looks forward to playing some day – portrays the...
