Carmen, the world's most performed opera, is reinvented by ballet artist Julien Lestel in an original, feminist adaptation.

As the fate motif sounds in the orchestra at the end of the Prelude to Georges Bizet’s “Carmen,” the curtain — in San Francisco Opera’s current revival of director Francesca Zambello’s production — ...

Opera directors like to reimagine the classics. Take Georges Bizet’s “Carmen,” which San Francisco Opera opened on Wednesday.

This is Drama Masks, a Bay Area performing arts column (full of mad ramblings, Oxford commas, and “theatre” with an “r-e”) ...