On this day in 2001, MTV premiered Carmen: A Hip Hopera, a genre-bending, culture-shifting reinterpretation of Georges Bizet’s classic opera Carmen—with a Hip Hop twist that made waves through both ...
Believe it or not, there was a time before Beyoncé Knowles had become the queen of the world. Back in 2001, before she had her own solo career and received acclaim as one of the biggest artists in ...
Beyoncé's starred in several major productions but the first film was an MTV made for TV movie, Carmen: A Hip Hopera. The cast was all-Black and received fair reviews from critics. But MTV executives ...
Based on Bizet's classic opera and its all African American musical counterpart Carmen Jones, Carmen a Hiphopera is a modern retelling of the story of the tragic gypsy Carmen. The setting has been ...
Robert Townsend Recalls Beyoncé’s Audition for ‘Carmen: A Hip Hopera,’ Says She Was ‘Really Nervous'
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo by Rich Polk/WireImage), (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Recording Academy) Robert Townsend saw something ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Townsend wanted to blindly hire Beyoncé to star as Carmen Brown in the MTV film, Carmen: A Hip Hopera, and watched Queen ...
You may remember Beyoncé’s Carmen: A Hip Hopera—if you don’t, google it. The MTV production set the bar for “hip hopera” (hip hop and opera) by completely changing the game. Now, Regina King is ...
Robert Townsend Recalls Beyoncé’s Audition for ‘Carmen: A Hip Hopera,’ Says She Was ‘Really Nervous'
(Photo by Rich Polk/WireImage), (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Recording Academy) Memphis Bleek Says New Music From Jay-Z Could Be On The Way: 'Save Me a Verse' Hov hasn't released a new ...
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