Home > Music > Classical > Orchestral Classical > Bizet: Carmen

Community Quote

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... more

Compare prices

for Bizet: Carmen

User Reviews

for Bizet: Carmen
  • 5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful
    Picture of operalover2000

    operalover2000

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Smooth voiced protagonists, nice sound

    Disadvantages 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 los Angeles in my opinion). She sings with greater precision in the runs and leaps than Resnik and her voice seems like balm after the altogether ... more

Product information

for Bizet: Carmen

Product Details

Title Bizet: Carmen, Bizet: Carmen (Complete), Carmen (Complete), Georges Bizet: Carmen, Donizetti: Maria Stuarda, George Bizet: Carmen, Bizet: Carmen [1975 Recording], Bizet: Carmen [Highlights], Recorder Music of the Italian High Baroque
Composer Georges Bizet (1838-1875), Georges (Alexandre César Léopold) Bizet (1838 - 1875), Georges Bizet (1838-1875); Unspecified, Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), Georges Bizet (1838-1875); Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827), Georges Bizet (1838-1875); Jürg Baur (b 1918)
Main Performer Alicia Nafe; Claudio Abbado; Geoffrey Pogson; George Main; Gordon Sandison, Charles Kilpatrick; Clare McCaldin; David Parry; Garry Magee; Julian Gavin, Andrea Guiot; Claude Cales; Georges Pretre; Jacques Mars; Jacques Pruvost, Albert Voli; Bernanrd Gontcharenko; Claude Meloni; Eliane Liblin; Grace Bumbry, Balvina de Courcelles; Georg Solti; Jacques Loreau; Jane Berbie; Jose van Dam, Alan Titus; Alexander Rahbari; Doina Palade; Giorgio Lamberti; Graciela Alperyn, Annette Schneider; Michael Schneider; Sabine Bauer, Tamás Vásáry, Bruno Aderhold; Gunther Leib; Harald Neukirch; Herbert Kegel; Maria Croonen, Carlo Zecchi, Günter Wand
Orchestra / Ensemble(s) Ambrosian Singers; George Watson College Boys' Chorus; London Symphony Orchestra, Cologne Radio Orchestra; Cologne Radio Chorus, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir; New London Children's Choir; Philharmonia Orchestra, La Scala Theater Chorus; La Scala Theater Orchestra, Paris Opéra-Comique Chorus; Paris Opéra-Comique Orchestra, Vienna Boys' Choir; Vienna State Opera Chorus; Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, French Radio Chorus; French National Orchestra, Paris Opera Chorus; Schöneberg Boys' Choir; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Chorus; Vienna State Opera Orchestra, New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus; New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bolshoi Theatre Chorus; Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Geneva Grand Theatre Chorus; Suisse Romande Orchestra, Vienna Boys' Choir; Vienna State Opera Chorus; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, John Alldis Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus; (Anonymous) Orchestra, French Radio Choir; Orchestre National de France; Radio France Maîtrise, Sofia National Opera Chorus; Sofia National Opera Orchestra, Various Artists Orchestra, Bordeaux Aquitaine National Orchestra; Choeur du Grand-Théâtre de Bordeaux, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra; Wiener Singverein, RAI Chorus, Milan; RAI Symphony Orchestra, Milan, Metropolitan Opera Chorus; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Milan La Scala Chorus; Milan La Scala Orchestra, (Jean) Pesneaud Children's Choir; (René) Duclos Choir; Paris Opera Orchestra, Geneva Grand Theatre Chorus
Date of Release 08/03/2005, 02/02/2009, 17/02/2003, 04/04/2005, 11/1998, 05/1995, 01/12/2008, 01/03/2000, 01/10/1994, 04/09/2000, 09/1996, 06/04/2009, 12/05/2008, 08/03/2010, 19/10/2009, 03/02/2003, 04/05/2009, 06/02/2006, 19/04/2010, 06/07/2009, 05/05/2008, 08/09/2008, 11/10/2004, 31/10/2005, 03/07/2006, 05/1984, 10/1983, 01/07/1996, 08/1989, 08/1999, 12/06/2004, 11/1994, 02/1997, 04/1995, 04/1997, 01/08/1985, 03/1995, 08/1997, 01/02/2010, 01/11/1987, 08/1988, 07/03/2011, 06/1991, 14/10/2002, 07/1996, 02/07/2007, 29/10/2007, 03/11/2003, 01/11/1990, 01/06/1995, 15/11/2010, 06/03/2006, 05/09/2005, 05/2001, 09/2000, 12/2000, 03/05/2004, 09/1997, 01/08/1998, 01/1993, 01/01/2002, 10/1995, 12/07/2004, 12/04/2004, 09/05/2005, 08/1995, 06/11/2006, 05/1999, 04/1989, 05/2000, 09/06/2003, 05/1997, 08/1990, 12/1990, 11/1991, 05/1988, 02/1986, 01/12/2004, 16/08/2004

See more Information

Related Tags

for Bizet: Carmen