Home Paddock reminds us
that this is the 139th anniversary of the first performance of Bizet’s opera Carmen. Bless you, YouTube: there is a
complete performance here of Carlos
Kleiber conducting it in the Vienna 1978 production by Zeffirelli, with Elena Obraztsova
as Carmen, Placido Domingo as Don Jose, and Isobel Buchanan as Micaela; James
Levine conducting it at the Met here with
Waltrud Meier as Carmen, Domingo again as Don Jose, and Angela Gheorghiu as
Micaela (fantastically irritating introduction but worth ploughing through it);
the 2010 Vienna production with Andris Nelsons conducting here with Nadia Krasteva as Carmen,
Massimo Giordano as Don Jose and – starry! – Anna Netrebko as Micaela; and
more.
We are not supposed to do this but it is possible to save YouTube clips
to your hard drive for later viewing. Just saying.
So here is Elina Garanca
singing the Habanera (probably at the Met
in 2010). All together now: “Love is a wild bird that no one can tame…”:
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