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Bizet Carmen

Bizet Carmen

IMDB:

7.0
Bizet Carmen

Released

1/1/1967

Duration

2h 44m

Genre

Drama, Music

Country

Switzerland

Cast

Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers, Mirella Freni

Overview

This spectacular opera film was taped in 1967 and is based on the 1966 Salzburg Festival production directed by Herbert von Karajan himself, who also conducts the fabulous Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The production features the three greatest exponents of their respective roles at the time: Grace Bumbry’s magnificently seductive-toned Carmen, Mirella Freni’s ineffably lovely, touching Micaëla and Jon Vickers’s thrillingly manic-depressive Don José. On its release the film was hailed by Die Presse, (Vienna) as a “unique artistic event”, while Le Monde felt that Karajan’s production brought “a whole new dimension” to the opera, “combined with a magisterial interpretation”. A classical and utterly dramatic approach to probably the world's most beloved opera – Karajan’s Carmen is as much a delicacy for opera fans as it is a perfect starter for newcomers.

Cast

Grace Bumbry

Carmen

Grace Bumbry

Jon Vickers

Don José

Jon Vickers

Mirella Freni

Micaëla

Mirella Freni

Justino Díaz

Escamillo

Justino Díaz

Julia Hamari

Frasquita

Julia Hamari

Olivera Miljakovic

Mercédès

Olivera Miljakovic

Robert Kerns

Moralès

Robert Kerns

Anton Diakov

Zuniga

Anton Diakov

Kurt Equiluz

Dancaïre

Kurt Equiluz

Milen Paunov

Remendado

Milen Paunov

Mariemma

Dancer at Lilas Pastia's Cortijo

Mariemma