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Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 (Live)

Robert Kerns (baritone), Mirella Freni (soprano), Jon Vickers (tenor), Anton Diakov (bass), Grace Bumbry (mezzo-soprano), Olivera Miljaković (soprano), Júlia Hamari (mezzo-soprano), Justino Díaz (bass-baritone), John van Kesteren (baritone), Milen Paunov (tenor)

Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Kinderchor...

There’s some extremely potent singing from three of the leads (Bumbry, Vickers and Freni’s Micaëla), not least from Bumbry with a subtle range of dynamics that truly suggest both the almost obligatory... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2019 More…

Release Date: 9th Nov 2018
Catalogue No: C866183D
Label: Orfeo
Series: Orfeo d'Or, Salzburger Festspieldokumente
Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

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Bizet: Carmen, WD 31, Act I

Work length51:48

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Robert Kerns (baritone), Mirella Freni (soprano), Jon Vickers (tenor), Anton Diakov (bass), Grace Bumbry (mezzo-soprano)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Kinderchor und Kammerchor der Salzburger Festspiele
Herbert von Karajan
Recorded: 29 July 1967
Recording Venue: Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria

Act I: Prélude (Live)

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Act I: Sur la place (Live)

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Act I: Regardez donc cette petite (Live)

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Act I: Avec la garde montante (Live)

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Act I: C'est bien là (Live)

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Act I: La cloche a sonné (Live)

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Act I: Mais nous ne voyons pas la Carmencita! (Live)

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Act I: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Live)

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Act I: Carmen, sur tes pas, nous nous pressons tous! (Live)

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Act I: Quels regards! Quelle effronterie! (Live)

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Act I: Parle-moi de ma mère! (Live)

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Act I: Reste là, maintenant (Live)

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Act I: Que se passe-t-il donc là-bas? - Au secours! (Live)

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Act I: Mon officer, c'était une querelle (Live)

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Act I: Où me conduirez-vous? (Live)

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Act I: Près des remparts de Séville (Live)

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Act I: Voici l'ordre, partez. Et le faites bonne garde (Live)

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Bizet: Carmen, WD 31, Act II

Work length6:46

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Olivera Miljaković (soprano), Julia Hamari (mezzo-soprano)
Recorded: 29 July 1967
Recording Venue: Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria

Act II: Entr'acte (Live)

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Act II: Les tringles des sistres tintaient (Live)

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Bizet: Scènes bohémiennes

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Wiener Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan
Recorded: 29 July 1967
Recording Venue: Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria

IV. Danse bohémienne (Live)

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Excerpt, Bizet: L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2

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Wiener Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan
Recorded: 29 July 1967
Recording Venue: Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria

IV. Farandole (Arr. E. Guiraud for Orchestra) [Live]

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Bizet: Carmen, WD 31, Act II

Work length36:33

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Justino Díaz (bass-baritone), John van Kesteren (baritone), Milen Paunov (tenor)
Recorded: 29 July 1967
Recording Venue: Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria

Act II: Messieurs, Pastia me dit (Live)

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Act II: Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre (Live)

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Act II: La belle, un mot (Live)

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Act II: Eh bien, vite, quelles nouvelles? - Nous avons en tête une affaire (Live)

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Act II: Mais qui donc attends-tu? (Live)

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Act II: Halte là! Qui va là? (Live)

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Act II: Je vais danser (Live)

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Act II: La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (Live)

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Act II: Non, tu ne m'aimes pas! (Live)

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Act II: Holà! Carmen! (Live)

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Act II: Bel officier! (Live)

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Bizet: Carmen, WD 31, Act III

Work length40:42

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Recorded: 29 July 1967
Recording Venue: Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria

Act III: Entr'acte (Live)

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Act III: Écoute, compagnon (Live)

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Act III: Que regardes-tu donc? (Live)

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Act III: Mêlons! Coupons! (Live)

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Act III: En vain pour éviter (Live)

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Act III: Eh bien? (Live)

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Act III: Quant au douanier (Live)

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Act III: C'est des contrebandiers (Live)

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Act III: Je ne me trompe pas (Live)

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Act III: Holà! José! (Live)

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Act III: Halte! Quelqu'un est là (Live)

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Bizet: Carmen, WD 31, Act IV

Work length19:31

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Recorded: 29 July 1967
Recording Venue: Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria

Act IV: Entr'acte (Live)

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Act IV: Les voici! Voici la quadrille! (Live)

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Act IV: Si tu m'aimes, Carmen (Live)

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Act IV: C'est toi? C'est moi! (Live)

Track length10:00

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“This music seems to me to be perfect," declared Friedrich Nietzsche. Here is a recording made far from the sterile world of the studio which palpably demonstrates how the master conductor, aided by a top-flight cast, brings the work to life on stage. Renewing acquaintance with Karajan’s Salzburg Festival Carmen from the 1960s might be described as a deja entendu experience of a very particular kind. The production opened the 1966 Salzburg Festival and took place against the background of the most tremendous expectations. Built to his own specifications, the Grosses Festspielhaus had been opened in 1960 and provided him with a space, both as a conductor and as a director, that offered him every opportunity to realize his personal vision of what might be termed “decorative music theatre.” This was a vision that Karajan may already have dreamt of as a young Kapellmeister in Ulm. Now, from a distance of fifty years, a live recording of the performance offers a chance to revisit that incredible night.

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Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Kinderchor und Kammerchor der Salzburger Festspiele, Herbert von Karajan

Reviews

February 2019

There’s some extremely potent singing from three of the leads (Bumbry, Vickers and Freni’s Micaëla), not least from Bumbry with a subtle range of dynamics that truly suggest both the almost obligatory compliment to a diva in this opera (‘sexy’) and a real sense of ironic humour…Orfeo’s release remains a curio, if a valuable historical document in terms of style.

Opera Now March 2019

Karajan’s conducting is detailed and the playing has glamour and sheen

Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 (Live)

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