Bizet: Carmen (3-Vinyl LP) – Maria Callas, Nicolaï Gedda

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Bizet: Carmen (3-Vinyl LP) – Maria Callas, Nicolaï Gedda

Composer: Georges Bizet
Artists: Maria Callas, Nicolaï Gedda, Andréa Guiot, Robert Massard, Chœur René Duclos, Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra
Conductor: George Prêtre
Number of Discs: 3
Label: Warner Classics
Release Date: April 11, 2023

Towards the end of Callas’s career, there were many rumors that she was planning to perform Carmen on stage. This was never to be, but Carmen became her penultimate complete recording of an opera – and her only complete recording of a French opera. With Georges Prêtre, one of her favored conductors, and the ever-stylish Nicolaï Gedda as her Don José, she captured every facet of the role. As Gramophone said when the set was first released: “Hers is a Carmen to haunt you.”



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History

Carmen

World premiere: 1887.

Georges Bizet’s original Carmen, takes place in and around Seville, Spain and tells of the downfall of a soldier, Don José, seduced by the wiles of the fiery Carmen. José abandons his sweetheart and his military duties for Carmen, yet loses her love to the glamorous matador Escamillo, after which José kills her in a jealous rage.

On January 9, 1884, Carmen premiered at the Metropolitan Opera. Thereafter it was quickly incorporated into the Met's regular repertory staging Carmen well-over a thousand times.  The Met Opera’s 2023-2024 Season debuts a vital new production of Carmen, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day and finds at the heart of the drama issues that could not be more relevant today: gendered violence, abusive labor structures, and the desire to break through societal boundaries.

Among the best-known of all operatic arias are Carmen’s “Habanera” from Act 1, sung by the title character and the toreador’s song, “Votre toast” in Act 2, performed by the matador Escamillo.

 

 

 

 

 

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