A modern-day renaissance man, jazz trumpeter and opera composer Terence Blanchard is an 8-time Grammy Award-winner whose film ...

The 'Habanera' from Act I and the 'Toreador Song' from Act II of 'Carmen' are now two of the best ... Listen to how the music begins mysteriously, softly and beguilingly. The melody is played ...

She sang the Habanera belligerently ... purists fussed at her because she took liberties with the music. Farrar’s popular Carmen lacked the finesse of many of her other roles.

Ask someone to visualize an orchestra conductor, and the image will probably be male. Female music directors remain as rare with top orchestras and opera companies as female CEOs at major corporations ...

Georges Bizet - ‘Habanera’ and ‘Toreador Song’ from ‘Carmen Suite No. 2’ 'Carmen ... 5 in G minor Brahms was inspired by the folk music of Hungarian dances called csárdás.

Music—even the music he was able to make ... with such parlor tricks as playing the melody of the “Habanera” from “Carmen” in one key and the accompaniment in another, and then playing ...

Eric Carmen recorded 'Hungry Eyes' reluctantly, battled with Clive Davis over a comeback record, and more we learned about ...

The one thing nobody disputes is that Carmen was a perfectionist and musical genius. “After he died, I saw he hadn’t made music in over 25 years,” says Steven Van Zandt. “I was like, ...