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COPYRIGHT 2005 Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc.
BIZET: Carmen
Obraztsova, Buchanan; Domingo, Mazurok, Rydl; Vienna State Ogera, Vienna Boys Choir; C. Kleiber. Production: Zeffirelli. TDK DVD DVUS CLOPCAR (Naxos, dist.), 152 mins., subtitled
Not much happens in the first twenty minutes of Carmen, and most performances seem to be trying to prove it. But Carlos Kleiber disagrees in this live 1978 performance. His prelude is dashing but not frantic, and it leads like a giant upbeat directly into a solid, flat-footed arrival of the opening chorus. This in turn connects kaleidoscopically...
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