Bizet: Carmen / Karajan, Price, Corelli, Merrill, Freni

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Label
RCA
Release Date
April 7, 2010
Format
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Karajan's RCA version, made in Vienna in 1964, owes much to Leontyne Price's seductive, smoky-toned Carmen... Robert Merrill sings with gloriously firm tone, while Mirella Freni is enchanting as Micaëla. -- The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs & DVDs [2003/4 edition]



Product Description:

  • Release Date: April 07, 2010


  • UPC: 743213949529


  • Catalog Number: RCA39495


  • Label: RCA


  • Number of Discs: 3


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Boys' Choir


  • Performer: Mirella, Lin, Franco, Freni, Leontyne, Corelli, Price



Works:

  1. Carmen

    Composer: Georges Bizet

    Ensemble: Vienna Boys' Choir, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Chorus

    Performer: Jean-Christophe Benoit (Baritone), Maurice Besançon (Tenor), Franco Corelli (Tenor), Bernard Demigny (Baritone), Mirella Freni (Soprano), Monique Linval (Soprano), Geneviève Macaux (Mezzo Soprano), Robert Merrill (Baritone), Leontyne Price (Soprano), Frank Schooten (Bass)

    Conductor: Herbert von Karajan