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Composer:
Georges Bizet

Artist(s):
Placido Domingo
Ruggero Raimondi

Conductor:
Lorin Maazel

Background: Originally, Carmen was a short-story by Merimee, where the character appears as a cozening whore. Meilhac, Halevy and Bizet, in writing the libretto, smoothed her sharp edges and concocted a drama of verismo in which Carmen is simply a young bachelor-girl, working in the Seville tobacco-factory.

Carmen stands for the woman of masculine desire, a bit of a witch, something of a priestess, and totally fatal. In 1875, the year the opera had its premiere, she looked like a public enemy, and a threat to law and order. Pleasure, like the pursuit of happiness, was a new and highly suspect notion in Europe, and Carmen, the vehicle of pleasure, was a woman whose record would have included the entry 'prostitute'.

CATALOGUE NR: 2564608042
RECORD LABEL: Elatus
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 7.99 including VAT, or £ 6.80 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 23-Feb-2004

COMPOSER: Georges Bizet
TITLE: Carmen - highlights
TRACKS: Overture. L'amour est un oiseau rebelle. Parle-moi de ma mere. Pres des remparts de Seville. Les tringles des sistres tintaient. Votre toast je peux le rendre. La fleur que tu m'avais jetee. Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante. Les voici voici la quadrille des toreros. C'est toi.
ORCHESTRA: French National Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Lorin Maazel
ARTISTS: Placido Domingo   Ruggero Raimondi   Faith Esham   Lillian Watson

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