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1.Bizet: Carmen from: Universal Classics March 07, 2005
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Not too impressed with the quality of the recording... I was really hoping for something MUCH better than that. If someone could recommended a brilliant audio recording of Carmen that would be just fantastic. This one lets me down I think. The singing is "top-drawer" though.

2.Bizet: Carmen from: Deutsche Grammophon November 08, 1984
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This is my favourite "Carmen" performance, not the least since Katia Ricciarelli and José Carreras are likewise my favorite opera singers. Katia Ricciarelli with her pure, clear voice, like silver bells, is totally free from the almost "screaming", which so often happens to sopranos on hitting the highest notes. As Micaela she plays a rather small part in the performance, but she does it beautifully and her voice is perfect for that role. José Carreras is world known for his lyrical tenor. I love his "voice from the soul" and have always preferred him singing softly rather than with all his strength. In this recording I am particularly fond of Act 1, scene 5: "Parle-moi de ma mère" between Don José (Carreras) and Micaela (Ricciarelli). ... Read More:

3.Bizet - Carmen: Prelude & Entr'actes, L'Arlesienne: Orchestral Suite (+Book) by: Les Musiciens du Louvre, Coeur de l'opera de Lyon April 28, 2008
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This is my favourite "Carmen" performance, not the least since Katia Ricciarelli and José Carreras are likewise my favorite opera singers. Katia Ricciarelli with her pure, clear voice, like silver bells, is totally free from the almost "screaming", which so often happens to sopranos on hitting the highest notes. As Micaela she plays a rather small part in the performance, but she does it beautifully and her voice is perfect for that role. José Carreras is world known for his lyrical tenor. I love his "voice from the soul" and have always preferred him singing softly rather than with all his strength. In this recording I am particularly fond of Act 1, scene 5: "Parle-moi de ma mère" between Don José (Carreras) and Micaela (Ricciarelli). ... Read More:

4.Bizet: Carmen from: Callas Edition March 10, 1997
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It is easy to see hear why Carmen is so popular. The music is original, vivid and memorable; and the plot, understandable. But I dislike the theme and moral atmosphere. It is no coincidence that Nietzche praised this opera as alternative to the betrayal he felt by the revived Christianity of Wagner's Parsifal. Carmen's cigarette factory and Gypsy independence symbolize the gathering consensus of 19th century secularism. What comes across is a brilliant cheapness as judged against the regal dignity of French Baroque opera created by Lully two centuries earlier. The two-century development of democratic taste has resulted in general impudence-- the same quality exhibited in some of Manet's paintings, in Twain's works and in Charlie McCarthy's declaration ... Read More:

5.Bizet - Carmen (Levine, Metropolitan Opera) [1988] (NTSC) starring: Agnes Baltsa, Josep Carreras, Samuel Ramey, Leona Mitchell, Myra Merritt directed by: Brian Large November 20, 2000
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A fantastic record of a live performance Broadcast from the Met in the late 1980's. As you would anticipate the production is both spectacular and overblown - complete with horses and a cast of 1000s. So much for a small tavern in Seville - this one would make the largest hotels look spartan. But the performance contains fantastic performances from all 4 principals. Mitchell is a sweet innocent, if slightly nervous Michaela on what was her Met debut; Ramey a flamboyantly virile, wonderfully sung Escamillo; Carreras is maybe not your ideal Don Jose, and can be wooden but sings beautifully throughout. However the real star is the great Agnes Baltsa - a hugely dramatic, fantastically sung performance at the peak of her career. The orchestra ... Read More:

6.Bizet - The Pearl Fishers from: Cfp July 03, 2006
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A fantastic record of a live performance Broadcast from the Met in the late 1980's. As you would anticipate the production is both spectacular and overblown - complete with horses and a cast of 1000s. So much for a small tavern in Seville - this one would make the largest hotels look spartan. But the performance contains fantastic performances from all 4 principals. Mitchell is a sweet innocent, if slightly nervous Michaela on what was her Met debut; Ramey a flamboyantly virile, wonderfully sung Escamillo; Carreras is maybe not your ideal Don Jose, and can be wooden but sings beautifully throughout. However the real star is the great Agnes Baltsa - a hugely dramatic, fantastically sung performance at the peak of her career. The orchestra ... Read More:

7.Bizet: L'Arlésienne Suites Nos.1 & 2 / Carmen Suite No.1 by: London Symphony Orchestra Claudio Abbado May 14, 2007
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A fantastic record of a live performance Broadcast from the Met in the late 1980's. As you would anticipate the production is both spectacular and overblown - complete with horses and a cast of 1000s. So much for a small tavern in Seville - this one would make the largest hotels look spartan. But the performance contains fantastic performances from all 4 principals. Mitchell is a sweet innocent, if slightly nervous Michaela on what was her Met debut; Ramey a flamboyantly virile, wonderfully sung Escamillo; Carreras is maybe not your ideal Don Jose, and can be wooden but sings beautifully throughout. However the real star is the great Agnes Baltsa - a hugely dramatic, fantastically sung performance at the peak of her career. The orchestra ... Read More:

8.Bizet: Carmen from: Great Recordings of the Century September 04, 2000
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In many ways Carmen seems to me more to resemble a modern musical than to be like other contemporary operas. The big ensembles and finales are 'operatic' in the usual sense certainly, and it settles down to being something like a normal 19th century opera by act III. However it's in the nature of things that it fixes its real 'profile' and identity in the listener's mind in the earlier acts. The role of the chorus in act I makes a big impression for one thing - Verdi didn't give his chorus this kind of role, but Bernstein did. Again, there is only one solo in the entire work that I would describe as an 'aria' in the usual sense, namely the one in act III which is explicitly so described, as if the composer was making this point himself. Carmen's Habanera and Seguidilla ... Read More:

9.Bizet - Carmen by: Ludovic Tézier, Eléments February 03, 2003
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Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu must be the best served recording operatic stars of today. With regular top quality releases of the more mainstream repertoire that is denied many of the rest of today's big-names - and seemingly dictated by the Alagnas themselves. This new recording of Carmen eschews any attempt at period revisionism and presents the traditional fully sung version that made the opera popular in the first place. It's obvious antecedent is the classic De Los Angeles/Beecham-EMI recording from nigh on 40 years ago(a classic, though in poor sound): a José with supreme expertise in the French repetoire and a soprano(rather than the requested mezzo) Carmen who hasn't performed the role on stage. And the results are almost, if not quite, as satisfactory. Read More:

10.Bizet: Carmen from: Red Seal March 08, 1997
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I enjoyed this cd a great deal. Price has an amazingly sexy voice. This will appeal if you see the character of Carmen as essentially seductive. There is little of the danger that other singers bring to the part, but for my money that does not matter as this is Price in her prime. Corelli's French leaves something to be desired but what a voice! Karajan conducts with tremendous sympathy, he has the measure of the sensuality of the music. The VPO as usual with this conductor sound glorious. I must admit to not being a fan of this opera but this recording has made me think again. The recording is very fine considering it's age (although RCA it's essentilly a Decca affair). It may not have the panache of say Beecham, or the excitement of a Muti but I bought it if only for Price.

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