Georges Bizet Movies

Passion, jealousy and betrayal take center stage at Londons Royal Opera House in a spectacular production of the worlds most popular opera. Bizets...

Shot at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Italy, Trisha and Carmen is a compelling narrative/document on the 1987 production of Carmen, which was...

This spectacular opera film was taped in 1967 and is based on the 1966 Salzburg Festival production directed by Herbert von Karajan himself, who also...

A Colourtune by Anson Dyer

This ever-popular opera is given a fresh point of view in Barrie Kosky’s highly physical production, originally created for Frankfurt Opera....

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 25 March 1997.

Peter Brooks' adaptation of Carmen by Mérimée and Bizet.

Manon has blocked the spring that feeds the village, whose inhabitants she hates. They gradually become aware of the evil they have done to her and...

A theater director decides to re-introduce Carmen with a new treatment, looking for an ideal actress to perform the main character, and the...

Live performance from Teatro alla Scala, 7 December 2009 .

Martin Kušej's brilliant 2006 Carmen represents a landmark interpretation of a truly timeless opera. Led by Rolando Villazón as Don...

In this documentary, award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke explores the creation of the Metropolitan Opera’s storied home of the last five...

Jonas Kaufmann and Anna Caterina Antonacci bring rare erotic intensity to the drama of Don José and Carmen in this darkly passionate reading...

Filmed production of Bizet’s Carmen at Earls Court in London, June 1989.

Live performance from the Vienna State Opera, 6 May 2010.

Maria Callas’ legendary live performances from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 1962 and 1964 celebrate her triumphant return to the...

Bizet’s rarely heard opera returned to the Met for the first time in a century on New Year’s Eve 2015, in Penny Woolcock’s...

With a devilish sway of the hips and a hint of Andalusian flair, Carmen, the beautiful cigar-maker sets her sights on a soldier: Don José....

Live performance from Chorégies d'Orange, 11 July 2015.

“What is hell? It is the inability to love,” writes Dostoevsky. From this wound emerges a work that intertwines music, virtual bodies,...