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Georges Bizet: Carmen [Box set]

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  • Orchestra: Orchestre National de France
  • Conductor: Lorin Maazel
  • Composer: Georges Bizet
  • Audio CD (9 April 1990)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Erato
  • ASIN: B000005E5X
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 250,371 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. Carmen: Nr. 1 - Ouverture
2. Carmen: Act I: Nr. 2 - Scene And Chorus: 'Sur la place, chacun passe' (Micaela)
3. Carmen: Act I: Nr. 3 - Chorus Of Urchins: 'Avec la garde montante'
4. Carmen: Act I: Nr. 3 - Dialogue: 'Il y a une jolie fille qui est venue te demander' (Don Jose)
5. Carmen: Act I: Nr. 4 - Chorus Of Cigarette-Girls: 'La cloche a sonne' (Carmen)
6. Carmen: Act I: Nr. 5 - Habanera: 'L'amour est un oiseau rebelle' (Carmen)
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Disc: 2
1. Carmen: Entracte
2. Carmen: Act II: Nr. 12 - Chanson boheme: 'Les tringles des sistres tintaient' (Carmen)
3. Carmen: Act II: Nr. 12 - Dialogue: 'Sortez!'
4. Carmen: Act II: Nr. 13 - Chorus: 'Vivat! vivat le Torero' (Carmen)
5. Carmen: Act II: Nr. 14 - Couplets: 'Votre toast je peux vous le rendre' (Escamillo, Carmen)
6. Carmen: Act II: Nr. 14 - Dialogue: 'Dis-mois ton nom' (Escamillo, Carmen)
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Disc: 3
1. Carmen: Act III: Nr. 20 - Trio: 'Melons! Coupons!' (Carmen)
2. Carmen: Act III: Nr. 20 - Dialogue: 'Eh, Carmen! Laisse!' (Carmen)
3. Carmen: Act III: Nr. 21 - Morceau d'ensemble: 'Quant au douanier, c'est notre affaire' (Carmen)
4. Carmen: Act III: Nr. 21 - Dialogue: 'Ne venez pas' (Micaela)
5. Carmen: Act III: Nr. 22 - Air: 'Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante' (Micaela)
6. Carmen: Act III: No. 22 - Dialogue: 'Un peu plus bas et vous me faisez sauter la tete' (Escamillo, Don Jose)
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On this CD:
  1. Carmen
    Composed by Georges Bizet
    Performed by French Radio Chorus, French National Orchestra
    with Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo, Faith Esham, Ruggero Raimondi, Lillian Watson, Susan Daniel, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Gérard Garino, François Le Roux, John Paul Bogart
    Conducted by Lorin Maazel

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An electric Carmen, 23 Mar 2003
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This is one of the best Carmen sets on the market. Mignes is all that anyone could wish for in a Carmen. feminine, seductive and fiery. All those qualities are conveyed in the singing giving a full and rounded portrait in one of the most recorded operas. Domingo is on top form and sings with a ringing heroic tone, surely one of the finest Don Jose's there has been. The conducting is keenly paced and the sound quality is stunning. This recording formed the soundtrack of the 1981 film and the real sense of drama is conveyed at all times. This really is opera at its best. The set is priced on the high side, but if you own this set, you are unlikely to want to buy another version.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best "Carmen" film to date, 17 Sep 2006
By Ralph Moore (Bishop's Stortford, UK) - See all my reviews
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I sympathise with those who want their Carmen quintessentially French, more in the Opera Comique tradition, with lighter voices, perfect accents and generally more Parisian than Viennese, but this film version and recording provides such a complete dramatic experience that for me, it leaves all the others - and there are an awful lot of them! - in the dust. The only other recording I enjoy as much is even more unauthentic: the beautifully sung, hugely dramatic Karajan reading with Corelli (French worse than Domingo's and without the excuse of at least sounding a bit Spanish), Price (smokey, alluring but very grand) and Merrill (vocalising marvellously without bothering much about characterisation details). You don't have to have seen the film to appreciate this Maazel account but it happens to be one of the very best visual realisations of any opera. Migenes Johnson re-trained her voice to acquire plenty of gutsy chest register without losing the delicacy of her top and she delivers that famous music with some lovely portamenti - not at all vulgar, in my opinion, just properly in character. When all is said and done, Carmen IS a bit of a slut - but a brave and likeable one! I get fed up with already outdated interpretative wisdom that she is, underneath it all something of a lady and should be sung with Gallic understatement; for me, Berganza simply underplays the role while Migenes Johnson gets it right. Domingo sings his best Jose on record; powerful, with a rapid vibrato and some easy, plangent top notes. The surprise for me was Raimondi's Escamillo; I agree with another reviewer that it is the best on disc and the voice sounds truly baritonal - which perhaps explains why I have sometimes found his timbre too light for some of the true bass roles he has undertaken. Maazel's direction is masterly; all the tempi are beautifully judged and the authentic French orchestra, chorus and secondary roles are a delight to the ears. My only slight disappointment is encountered in Esham's Micaela; she sings neatly and expressively but the fundamental tone is thin; I miss the beauty of Te Kanawa's sound in this role. Still, that doesn't really spoil the set; you won't find a better.

Visually, the film is a delight: gritty performances by principals who really look the part; beautiful locations and sets with lots of soft umbers and ochres and flashes of red.
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