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This page lists all recordings of Carmen by Georges Bizet (1838-75).
Bizet: Carmen
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Magdalena Kožená (Carmen), Jonas Kaufmann (Don José), Genia Kühmeier (Micaëla), Kostas Smoriginas (Escamillo), Christian van Horn (Zuniga), Andrè Schuen (Moralès), Christina Landshammer (Frasquita), Rachel Frenkel (Mercédès), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Remendado) & Simone del Savio (Dancairo)
Chor...
this studio recording of Bizet’s opera compels attention for a variety of reasons...[Rattle and Kozena] stress their wish to return to the “chamber feeling” of the French tradition into which... — More…
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2 CDs
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Bizet: Carmen
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Anna Caterina Antonacci (Carmen), Jonas Kaufmann (Don Jose), Norah Amsellem (Micaela), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Escamillo), Jacques Imbrailo (Morales), Matthew Rose (Zuniga), Elena Xanthoudakis (Frasquita), Viktoria Vizin (Mercedes), Caroline Lena Olsson (Lillas Pastia), Jean Sebastien Bou (Le Dancaire),...
Pappano in the pit takes the whole thing at a tremendous lick while coaxing some lovely playing from the Royal Opera House Orchestra. For all that, this is opera as spectacle with good tunes... — More…
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Bizet: Carmen
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Julia Migenes (Carmen), Plácido Domingo (Don José), Ruggero Raimondi (Escamillo), Faith Esham (Micaëla), Susan Daniel (Mercédès), Lilian Watson (Frasquita), François Le Roux (Moralès), John Paul Bogart (Zuniga)
Choeurs et Maîtrise de Radio France & Orchestre National de France, Lorin Maazel
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2 CDs
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Bizet: Carmen
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Christa Ludwig (Carmen), Melitta Muszely (Micaëla), Ursula Schirrmacher (Frasquita), Ursula Gust (Mercédès), Rudolf Schock (Don José), Hermann Prey (Escamillo); Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin & Berliner Symphoniker, Horst Stein
[Ludwig] is absolutely stunning...She is superb, vocally and dramatically in the long second act duet scene with Don José, doom-laden in the card scene in act III and magnificent in the finale...[Muszely]... — More…
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Bizet: Carmen
Teresa Berganza (Carmen), Plácido Domingo (Don Jose), Sherrill Milnes (Escamillo), Ileana Cotrubas (Micaela), Yvonne Kenny (Frasquita), Alicia Nafé (Mercédès), Robert Lloyd (Zuniga), Stuart Harling (Moralès)
London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
This notable recording followed immediately on from the famous Faggioni production at the 1977 Edinburgh Festival, a staging finely observed enough still to remain with those who were there.... — More…
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33 CDs
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Bizet: Carmen
Victoria de los Angeles (Carmen), Nicolai Gedda (Don Jose), Ernest Blanc (Escamillo), Janine Micheau (Micaela), Denise Monteil (Frasquita), Jean-Christophe Benoit (Dancaire), Michel Hamel (Remendado)
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Sir Thomas Beecham
3 CDs
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Bizet: Carmen
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Elina Garanča (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don José), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Escamillo), Barbara Frittoli (Micaela), Keith Miller (Zuniga), Elizabeth Caballero (Frasquita), Sandra Piques Eddy (Mercedes), Earle Patriarco (Dancaire), Keith Jameson (Remandado), Trevor Scheunemann (Morales)
Metropolitan...
...everyone on stage, from stars to comprimarios and children (authentically underfoot), crackles with individual life, ideal on video... Garanča's clean-cut Baltic mezzo and fresh good looks... — More…
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Bizet: Carmen
Regina Resnik (Carmen), Mario del Monaco (Don José), Joan Sutherland (Micaëla), Tom Krause (Escamillo), Georgette Spanellys (Frasquita), Yvonne Minton (Mercédès), Claude Cales (Moralès), Robert Geay (Zuniga)
Suisse Romande Orchestra, Thomas Schippers
2 CDs
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Offer, 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,...
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... — More…