Bizet: Carmen

Bizet: Carmen

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Arguably the best recording of Carmen in the past 30 years. Teresa Berganza has a smooth and warm voice here, rather darker than Victoria de los Angeles (Thomas Beecham conducts, EMI) but smoother and lighter than Maria Callas (Georges Pretre conducts, EMI) and Regine Resnik (Schippers conducts, ... Read review





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Great Modern Carmen
Review of Bizet: Carmen by operalover2000

Advantages: Smooth voiced protagonists, nice sound
Disadvantages: Slightly tame Escamillo, maybe lacking in some french style

Arguably the best recording of Carmen in the past 30 years. Teresa Berganza has a smooth and warm voice here, rather darker than Victoria de los Angeles (Thomas Beecham conducts, EMI) but smoother and lighter than Maria Callas (Georges Pretre conducts, EMI) and Regine Resnik (Schippers conducts, Decca). Her performance is similarly balanced - dramatic without being too vampish and with that sultry latin quality (a little bit lacking in Victoria de ...
...in the runs and leaps than Resnik and her voice seems like balm after the altogether different instrument of Maria Callas (even at the later's best she growls rather more than Berganaza which you either love or hate). Placido Domingo is a king amongst recent Don Joses on record. Jose Carreras with Karajan may bring more passion to the role but his voice is not in as fine form as Domingo's was in the late 70s and Domingo has a more powerful and arguably ... Read review

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Bizet: Carmen

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Title: Bizet: Carmen

Composer: Georges (Alexandre César Léopold) Bizet (1838 - 1875)

Main Performer: Alicia Nafé (Mezzo soprano); Geoffrey Pogson (Tenor); Gordon Sandison (Baritone); Ileana Cotrubas (Soprano); Plácido Domingo (Tenor)

Orchestra / Ensemble(s): (George) Watson College Boys' Chorus; Ambrosian Singers Choir; London Symphony Orchestra

Recomended Retail Price: 20.99 GBP

Label / Distributor: The Originals / Universal Manufacturing and Logistics

Pieces in Set: 2

Running Time: 3 hours 38 minutes

Genre(s): Stage works

Stereo: Stereo

SPAR Code: ADD

EAN: 28947753421

Catalogue Number: 477

Work 1

Work Title: Carmen

Excerpt(s): 1. Prelude
2. ACT 1 - Sur la place, chacun place
3. Avec la garde montante
4. La cloche a sonné; La voilà!
5. L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Habanera)
6. Carmen! sur tes pas
7. Parle-moi de ma mère!
8. Ma mère, je la vois
9. Au secours!
10. Voyons, brigadier
11. Près des remparts de Séville (Seguédille); Voici l'ordre
12. ACT 2 - Entr'acte; Les tringles des sistres (Gypsy Song); Danse bohemienne; Vous avez quelque chose
13. Vivat, vivat le torero!; Votre toast (Toreador's Song)
14. Nous avons en tête une affaire!
15. Halte-là! Qui va là?
16. Je vais danser en votre honneur; Au quartier!; La fleur que tu m'avais jetée; Non! tu ne m'aimes pas!
17. Holà! Carmen!
18. ACT 3 - Entr'acte; Écoute compagnon; Notre métier est bon
19. Mêlons! Coupons! (Card Scene); Voyons, que j'essaie à mon tour; En vain, pour éviter
20. Quant au douanier
21. Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante (Micaëla's aria)
22. Je suis Escamillo
23. Micaëla! José!
24. Unknown
25. Unknown; A deux cuartos!; Unknown; Entr'acte
26. Unknown; Voyons, que j'essaie à mon tour; Carreau, pique...la mort!
27. Les voici!
28. Si tu m'aimes, Carmen
29. C'est toi! (Finale).
30. ARRANGEMENTS - Fantasie
31. Potpourri
32. (The) Car Man arr Davies, T

Composer: Georges (Alexandre César Léopold) Bizet (1838 - 1875)

Genre: Stage works

Date Written: 1875

Conductor: Claudio Abbado

Orchestra / Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra / Ensemble: Ambrosian Singers Choir

Orchestra / Ensemble: (George) Watson College Boys' Chorus

Main Performer: Alicia Nafé (Mezzo soprano), Geoffrey Pogson (Tenor), Gordon Sandison (Baritone), Ileana Cotrubas (Soprano), Plácido Domingo (Tenor), Robert Lloyd (Bass), Sherrill Milnes (Baritone), Stuart Harling (Baritone), Teresa Berganza (Mezzo soprano), Yvonne Kenny (Soprano)

Opera Part(s): Alicia Nafé (Mercédès), Geoffrey Pogson (Remendado), Gordon Sandison (Dancaïre), Ileana Cotrubas (Micaëla), Plácido Domingo (Don José), Robert Lloyd (Zuniga), Sherrill Milnes (Escamillo), Stuart Harling (Moralès), Teresa Berganza (Carmen), Yvonne Kenny (Frasquita)

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