Carmen

Album by Georges Bizet & Angela Gheorghiu & Roberto Alagna & Inva Mula & Thomas Hampson & La Lauzeta & Les Éléments & Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse & Michel Plasson

Carmen is an opera by French composer Georges Bizet, first performed in 1875. The score blends colourful, rhythmically vivid orchestration and memorable melodic writing drawn from Romantic-era operatic traditions with elements evoking Spanish folk idioms, and it occupies a pivotal place in Bizet's output for advancing a more realistic, character-driven approach that influenced later developments in opera.
First released: 2003

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Carmen : Prélude
    3:33
  2. 2.
    Carmen : Acte I. Chœur des gamins
    3:54
  3. 3.
    Carmen : Acte I. Habanera
    4:35
  4. 4.
    Carmen : Acte I. Duo Micaëla - Don José
    8:57
  5. 5.
    Carmen : Acte I. Séguedille
    4:15
  6. 6.
    Carmen : Acte II. Chanson bohème
    4:36
  7. 7.
    Carmen : Acte II. Air du toréador
    4:55
  8. 8.
    Carmen : Acte II. Quintette des contrebandiers
    5:03
  9. 9.
    Carmen : Acte II. Air de la fleur
    3:45
  10. 10.
    Carmen : Acte III. Trio des cartes
    7:34
  11. 11.
    Carmen : Acte III. Air de Micaëla
    6:20
  12. 12.
    Carmen : Acte IV. Entrée des toréadors
    4:06
  13. 13.
    Carmen : Acte IV. Duo final
    8:51

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