Bizet: Carmen (complete opera) with Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Georges Pretre, Paris Opera Orchestra
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1997-08-19
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Carmen, opera: No. 1, Prelude
- Carmen, opera: Act I, No. 2, "Sur la place, chacun passe" (Soldats)
- Carmen, opera: Act I, No. 3, "Avec la garde montante" (Chorus des Gamins)
- Carmen, opera: Act I, No. 4a, "La Cloche a sonne, nous des ouvrieres" (Jeunes Gens)
- Carmen, opera: Act I, No. 4b, "La voila! Voila la Carmencita!" (Tous)
- Carmen, opera: Act I, No. 5, "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Habanera) (Carmen w/Chorus)
- Carmen, opera: Act I, No. 6, "Carmen! sur tes pas" (Les Jeunes Gens)
- Carmen, opera: Act I, No. 7, "Parle-moi de ma mere!" (Don Jose)
- Carmen, opera: Act I, No. 8, "Au secours!" (Chorus)
- Carmen, opera: Act I, No. 9, "Voyons, brigadier"
- Carmen, opera: Act I, No. 10a, "Pres des remparts de Seville" (Seguidilla) (Carmen)
- Carmen, opera: Act I, No. 10b, "Voice l'orde" (Zuniga)
- Carmen, opera: Act II, No. 11a, "Entr'acte"
- Carmen, opera: Act II, No. 11b, "Les tringles des sistres tintaient" (Gypsy Song) (Carmen)
- Carmen, opera: Act II, No. 11c, "Dans bohemienne"
- Carmen, opera: Act II, No. 11d, "Vous avez quelque chose"
- Carmen, opera: Act II, No. 12a, "Vivat, vivat le torero!" (Chorus)
- Carmen, opera: Act II, No. 12b, "Votre toast... je peux vous le rendre" (Toreador's Song) (Escamillo)
- Carmen, opera: Act II, No. 13, "Nous avons en tete une affaire!" (Dancaire)
- Carmen, opera: Act II, No. 14, "Halte-la! Qui va la?" (Don Jose)
- Carmen, opera: Act II, No. 15a, "Je vais danser en votre honneur" (Carmen)
- Carmen, opera: Act II, No. 15b, "Au quartier! pour l'appel" (Carmen)
- Carmen, opera: Act II, No. 15c, "La fleur que tu ma'vais jetee" (Flower Song) (Don Jose)
- Carmen, opera: Act II, No. 15d, "Non! tu ne ma'aimes pas!" (Carmen)
- Carmen, opera: Act II, No. 16, "Hola! Carmen!" (Zuniga)
- Carmen, opera: Act III, No. 17a, "Entr'acte"
- Carmen, opera: Act III, No. 17b, "Ecoute, compagnon, ecoute" (Les Contrebandiers)
- Carmen, opera: Act III, No. 17c, "Notre metier est bon" (Les Six)
- Carmen, opera: Act III, No. 18a, "Melons! Coupons!" (Card Scene) (Mercedes, Frasquita)
- Carmen, opera: Act III, No. 18b, "Voyons, que f'essaie a mon tour"
- Carmen, opera: Act III, No. 18c, "En vain, pour eviter les reponses ameres" (Carmen)
- Carmen, opera: Act III, No. 19, "Quant au douanier c'est notre affaire" (Carmen, Mercedes, Frasquita et Femmes)
- Carmen, opera: Act III, No. 20, "Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante" (Micaela's Aria)
- Carmen, opera: Act III, No. 21, "Je suis Escamillo" (Escamillo)
- Carmen, opera: Act IV, No. 22a, "Entr'acte"
- Carmen, opera: Act IV, No. 22b, "A deux cuartos!" (Chorus)
- Carmen, opera: Act IV, No. 23, "Les voici, noici la quandrille" (Chorus)
- Carmen, opera: Act IV, No. 24, "Si tu m'aimes, Carmen" (Escamillo)
- Carmen, opera: Act IV, No. 25, "C'est toi!", Final Duet (Carmen, Don Jose)
Music reviews of Bizet: Carmen (complete opera) with Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Georges Pretre, Paris Opera Orchestra
Music Review: great recording with all lyrics
Rating: 5 Stars
The case has all the lyrics in French and an English translation. Great to get familiar with before paying $150 for a good opera production.
Description of Bizet: Carmen (complete opera) with Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Georges Pretre, Paris Opera Orchestra
This recording was made near the end of Maria Callas's career. It is a role she never sang onstage, but it suited her almost perfectly, and she gives a deep, compelling performance on this recording. The mezzo-soprano tessitura was comfortable for her voice, and the role did not call for a pretty sound. Nor did the recording studio require the kind of huge vocal power expected in an opera house. And furthermore, the character of a strong-willed, capricious, sexually compelling woman who thinks exclusively of herself was close to the offstage personality that made Callas so famous. --Joe McLellanGeneral CDs
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