Latest News: Classical, Bizet (composer)
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Recording of the Week,
Diana Damrau sings in Bizet's The Pearl Fishers from the Met 13th January 2017Katherine enjoys a new staging of Bizet's glorious exotic opera, starring Diana Damrau, Matthew Polenzani and Mariusz Kwiecien.
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Favourites,
Georges Bizet 23rd January 2015Katherine looks at the recorded legacy of the French composer.
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Recording of the Week,
Carmen from Berlin with Kaufmann and Kožená 20th August 2012The light-voiced Czech mezzo and heavyweight German tenor are an appropriately chalk-and-cheese pairing as the free-spirited gypsy and her obsessive soldier lover, with Kožená’s husband Simon Rattle conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker in a performance which emphasises the score’s opéra comique pedigree.