Carmen (1915 Cecil B. DeMille film) so DeMille instructed his screenwriter brother William to base his scenario on the public domain novella "Carmen" by Prosper Mérimée. The novella's Carmen was more wilful and manipulative than the opera version. For instance, William included a cigarette factory fight scene from the book which was not found in the opera. Composer Hugo Riesenfeld arranged the orchestral score, his first of many for film, which "was" based on that of Bizet's opera. It was performed at the premiere and other prestigious screenings. There have been two restorations of Riesenfeld's score: the first was by Gillian Anderson, recorded with the London
Opera Fusion: New Works comedy surrounds an opera star who returns to save her struggling local opera company by appearing in an unknown bel canto opera, which is scheduled for the same night as the Super Bowl—in which the home team is playing. The piece was premiered at Dallas Opera in 2015, and was performed again by San Diego Opera in 2016. After a workshop with OF:NW, the opera "Fellow Travelers", by composer Gregory Spears and librettist Greg Pierce, premiered at Cincinnati Opera in June 2016, and will be performed by the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2018. It is set during the McCarthy