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Bizet: Carmen

Search: The Brigadier
by: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Leonard Bernstein

Release Date November 25, 2002

CD-Charts Position 2
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Bizet: Carmen

Search: The Brigadier
from: Universal Classics

Release Date March 07, 2005
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.

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Bizet: Carmen

Search: The Brigadier
from: Deutsche Grammophon

Release Date September 06, 1994
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.

CD-Charts Position 4
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Bizet - Carmen (Highlights)

Search: The Brigadier
by: London Symphony Orchestra

Release Date March 12, 2001
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.

CD-Charts Position 5
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Bizet: Carmen (highlights)

Search: The Brigadier
from: Classikon

Release Date May 05, 1995
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.

CD-Charts Position 6
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Bizet: Carmen

Search: The Brigadier
from: Deutsche Grammophon

Release Date November 08, 1984
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:

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Bizet: Carmen

Search: The Brigadier
from: Unknown Label

Release Date September 29, 1983
Each scene is beautifully crafted but the opera doesn't flow as well as it might. However, Carreras gives a fine performance. He makes something of a role that is frankly not that interesting and bound to be overshadowed by the lead anyhow. So I don't agree that he sounds hysterical, more involved and passionate.
Agnes Baltsa has a voice of power and beauty. Where some just sound too beautiful and "perfect" to be a convincing Carmen (de los Angeles) and others go a bit crazy, she manages to inject the right degree of scorn and haughtiness throughout and gets it about right.
I'm not a massive fan of Katia Ricchiarelli though and I agree with a review I read elsewhere that the only soprano to have ever got much from the role of ... Read More: