Track Listings (17) - Disc #1| All Artists: Georges Bizet, Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo, Lorin Maazel, Ruggero Raimondi, Faith Esham, Lillian Watson, Susan Daniel, François Le Roux, John-Paul Bogart, Gérard Garino, Jean-Philippe LaFont Title: Bizet - Carmen / Migenes, Domingo, Raimondi, Esham, Lafont, Watson, Le Roux; Maazel (1984 film) Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 1 Label: Erato Release Date: 6/25/1991 Album Type: Soundtrack Genres: Soundtracks, Broadway & Vocalists Style: Traditional Vocal Pop Number of Discs: 3 SwapaCD Credits: 3 UPC: 022924520723 |
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 | Georges Bizet, Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo Bizet - Carmen / Migenes, Domingo, Raimondi, Esham, Lafont, Watson, Le Roux; Maazel (1984 film) Genres: Soundtracks, Broadway & Vocalists
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CD ReviewsPerfect! Glorious!!!!! Emma de Soleil | On a holiday In Ibiza, then back to the UK for stu | 03/16/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "This recording&the video turned me into an operanut.... I LOVE it and cannot stop to listen to it as often as possible. By now I own 35 recordings of Carmen with the likes of Ponselle, Simionato, Callas, Cossotto, de los Angeles, Callas, Crespin, Resnik, Moffo, Bumbry, Baltsa, Troyanos, Larmore, Verrett, Fassbänder.... Only Baltsa (whom I heard live as Carmen) came close to Migenes. I prefer Carreras' Don José because he is more passionate, more fatal, more self-destructive.....but Placido is amazing too. Raimondi is the ONLY Escamillo whom I really like in the role... All the others merely "act" Escamillo but he IS Escamillo. Esham is a pretty, fragile Micaela, very lovely.I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT!" The finest production of Bizet's Carmen I've ever heard! Ralph Moore | 09/09/1998 (5 out of 5 stars) "This soundtrack to the 1984 Francesco Rosi film adaptation of the classic opera Carmen has been hailed as the definitive version. Starring the famous Placido Domingo as Don Jose and Julia Migenes-Johnson (now only Migenes) as Carmen. Though it is a studio (rather than live) work, Migenes' Carmen is now hailed as one of the best Carmens ever, and Domingo sings his role excellently. This CD set also features Ruggero Raimondi as the bullfighter Escamillo and soprano Faith Esham as the innocently girlish Micaela. All of the singers deliver unforgettable performances. You will love this CD set!" OK sound quality; great performances and film Frank Lin | 11/07/2003 (4 out of 5 stars) "It's strange that reviews on Amazon written so far on this recording seem to have focused on the film production rather than the CD set. Although this is a sound track of the Francesco Rossi film adaptation of Carmen, it is marketed(and rightly so) as an opera recording. First on the individual singer: they are all good, but I think Raimondi {Escamillo} and Domingo {Don Jose} stand out. Both perform superbly (and this is assuming you're just listening without seeing the movie). Faith Esham's Michaela is great. Her voice is full and smooth and fits Bizet's lyrical style very well. I like Migenes-Johnson's Carmen. She sings well, with a good amount of sultry, capricious aura. If you just listen to the CD's without having watched the film, you might have gotten a different feeling about Don Jose. Domingo's portrayal of Don Jose (perhaps partly due to his imposing physical presence) in the film is more confident than what his singing may suggest. Don Jose should be a more tentative character. {OK that's all I'll say about the film.)Now about the sound quality. There is more background noise than other recordings. I guess this is becasue it is a sound track after all, so a lot of stage sound is not filtered out. The sound is also not too "loud," so I typically have to turn up the volumn, and end up hearing quite a bit of noise.Recommended even just for the performances alone."
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