Georges Bizet / Leonard Bernstein / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - Carmen FLAC

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Credits

• Chorus – Children's Chorus, Manhattan Chorus
• Chorus Master – John Mauceri
• Composed By – Georges Bizet
• Conductor – Leonard Bernstein
• Design – Joost De Boo
• Engineer [Balance], Engineer [Recording], Edited By – Günter Hermans
• Liner Notes – Franz Steiger
• Orchestra – Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
• Photography By – Louis Melancon
• Producer – Thomas Mowrey
• Vocals [Carmen] – Marilyn Horne
• Vocals [Dancaïre, Lillas Pastia] – Russell Christopher
• Vocals [Don José] – James McCracken
• Vocals [Escamillo] – Tom Krause
• Vocals [Frasquita] – Colette Boky
• Vocals [Mercédès] – Marcia Baldwin
• Vocals [Micaëla] – Adriana Maliponte
• Vocals [Moralès] – Raymond Gibbs
• Vocals [Remendado] – Andrea Velis
• Vocals [Zuniga] – Donald Gramm

Notes

Sung in French. Remastered 2014 in Baarn, The Netherlands, using the original multi-channel master tapes. SACD layer contains both stereo mix and Quadraphonic multichannel mix. Comes in a thick hardcover book with discs slid into paper pouches inside front and rear covers.

The recording was made at New York's Metropolitan Opera House in September 1972. The production opened on 19 September 1972 for six performances. Recording commenced on 22 September 1972 and concluded one week before the final performance.

This recording was released in 1973 and reviewed in (The) Grammophone, June 1973 page 91.

Catalog Numbers:
PTC 5186 216 - Release / Book
PTC 5186 217 - Disc 1
PTC 5186 218 - Disc 2

Barcodes

• Barcode: 8 27949 02166 4
• Matrix / Runout (Disc 1: HD Layer): A0102435794-A912 17 A00
• Matrix / Runout (Disc 1: Redbook Layer): A0102435794-B912 18 00A
• Matrix / Runout (Disc 2: HD Layer): A0102435796-A922 37 A00
• Matrix / Runout (Disc 2: Redbook Layer): A0102435796-B922 28 00A
• Mastering SID Code (Discs 1 & 2: HD Layer): IFPI L557
• Mastering SID Code (Discs 1 & 2: Redbook Layer): IFPI L558
• Mould SID Code (Discs 1 & 2): IFPI 94B1
• Other (Disc 1: Category): PTC 5186 217
• Other (Disc 2: Category): PTC 5186 218
• Label Code: LC 12686

Companies

• Copyright (c) – PentaTone Music B.V.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
• Remastered At – Polyhymnia International

Album

Bizet: Carmen, Extracts - Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House, Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera House, George Sebastian, Georges Bizet. Лента с персональными рекомендациями и музыкальными новинками, радио, подборки на любой вкус, удобное управление своей коллекцией. Формируйте собственную коллекция коллекцию записей Georges Bizet, Marilyn Horne, James McCracken, Leonard Bernstein, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra And Chorus. Georges Bizet Carmen. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Children's Chorus, The Manhattan Opera Chorus. Manufactured and marketed by PolyGram Classics & Jazz. This is a problem recording, and even fans of Leonard Bernstein and Marilyn Horne will find it odd. The Maestro's tempi are weirdly slow, Horne sings the role note-by-note rather than phrase-by-phrase, and when she finally does decide to emote, in the final scene, she sounds like she's gone loony. James McCracken was an artist with a huge but unappealing voice who also had brains and power, bu. Georges Bizet. Upcoming Performances. Georges Bizet 18381875 was known as a brilliant student and prodigy, but his works only found lasting success after his untimely death-most notably Carmen, which premiered three months before he died. Librettist Henri Meilhac 18311897 would subsequently provide the libretto for Massenets Manon 1884. His collaborator on Carmen was Ludovic Halévy 18341908, the nephew of composer Jacques Fromental Halévy creator of the opera La Juive and Bizets father-in-law. The libretto is based on a novella by Prosper Mérimée 18031870, a French dramatist, historian, and archaeologist. Listen to music from Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Leonard Bernstein like Carmen: Overture Prelude, Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 - Prélude & more. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from Metropolitan Bizet - Carmen FLAC album RAR archive. Georges Bizet - Carmen WMA album RAR archive. Sung in French. The recording was made at New York's Metropolitan Opera House in September 1972. The production opened on 19 September 1972 for six performances. Recording commenced on 22 September 1972 and concluded one week before the final performance. Bizet: Carmen. Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Leonard Bernstein. or open in our Desktop app. Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 - Prélude. Bizet: Carmen, WD 31, Act 1 - Sur la place chacun passe. James McCracken Raymond Gibbs Donald Gramm Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Leonard Bernstein The Metropolitan Childrens Chorus John Mauceri. Bizet: Carmen, WD 31, Act 1 - Dites-moi, brigadier James McCracken Donald Gramm Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Leonard Bernstein. Bizet: Carmen, WD 31, Act 1 - Voici la cloche qui sonne. La cloche a sonné. The Metropolitan Opera commonly known as the Met is an opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager. As of 2018, the company's current music director is Yannick Nézet-Séguin. About the opera Carmen. Carmen is a French opra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halvy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mrime, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies 1824 by Alexander Pushkin. Mrime had read the poem in Russian by 1840 and translated it into French in 1852. The opera premiered at the Opra-Comique of Paris on 3 March 1875, but its opening run was denounced by the majority of critics. Opera Carmen Carmen is an opera comique in four acts, written by French composer Georges Bizet, and premiered in 1875. The libretto, written by Henri