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Carmen discography

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This is a discography of audio and video recordings of Carmen, a French-language opera by Georges Bizet. The opera premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875. Carmen is one of the most frequently recorded operas, dating back to a near-complete German acoustical recording in 1908.

Audio recordings

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Year Cast
(Carmen, Don José,
Micaëla, Escamillo)
Conductor,
Opera house and orchestra
Label[1]/Notes
1908 Emmy Destinn

Karl Jörn
Minnie Nast
Hermann Bachmann

Bruno Seidler-Winkler
Grammophone Orchestra Berlin
Berlin State Opera chorus
(sung in German)
CD: Aura Music
Cat: LRC 1900
CD: Marston Records
Cat: 52022-2[2]
1911 Marguerite Mérentié
Agustarello Affré
Aline Vallandri
Henri Albers
François Ruhlmann
l'Orchestre Symphonique
Chœur de l'Opéra-Comique
CD: Malibran
Cat: MR 560
CD: Marston Records
Cat: 52019-2[3]
1920 Fanny Anitùa
Luigi Bolis
Ines Maria Ferraris
Cesare Formichi
Unknown
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus
(sung in Italian)
LP: Columbia
Cat: D 5582-97[4]
1927 Lucy Perelli
José de Trévi
Yvonne Brothier
Louis Musy
Piero Coppola
Chœur et Orchestre de l'Opéra-Comique
LP: Victor
Cat:[5]
1928 Raymonde Visconti
Georges Thill
Marthe Nespoulous
Louis Guénot
Élie Cohen
l'Orchestre Symphonique de Paris
Chœur de l'Opéra-Comique
LP: Columbia Recording
Cat: 27809[5][6]
1931 Gabriella Besanzoni
Piero Pauli
Maria Carbone
Ernesto Besanzoni
Carlo Sabajno
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus
(sung in Italian)
CD: Myto Records
Cat:
1932 Aurora Buades
Aureliano Pertile
Ines Alfani Tellini [it]
Benvenuto Franci [it]
Lorenzo Molajoli
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus
(sung in Italian)
CD: Phonographe Records
Cat:
1937 Rosa Ponselle
René Maison
Hilda Burke
Julius Huehn
Gennaro Papi
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
CD: Walhall
Cat: WHL 15[5]
1942 Germaine Cernay
Raymond Berthaud
Ginette Guillamat
Lucien Lovano
Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht
Orchestre National de France
CD: Malibran-Music (Radio Provence)
Cat: CDRG172
Elisabeth Höngen
Torsten Ralf
Elfriede Weidlich
Josef Herrmann
Karl Böhm
Staatsoper Dresden orchestra and chorus
(sung in German)
CD: Preiser
Cat: PR90152[6]
1943 Lily Djanel
Raoul Jobin
Licia Albanese
Leonard Warren
Thomas Beecham
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
CD: Walhall
Cat: WLCD0006[6]
1950 Solange Michel
Raoul Jobin
Martha Angelici
Michel Dens
André Cluytens
Chœur et Orchestre de l'Opéra-Comique
CD: EMI mono
Cat: CMS5 65318-2
LP: Naxos Historical
Cat: 8.110238-39[5][6]
1951 Risë Stevens
Jan Peerce
Licia Albanese
Robert Merrill
Fritz Reiner
RCA Victor orchestra
LP: RCA Victrola
Cat: AVM3-0670
CD: RCA Red Seal
Cat: 88843041212
1951 Suzanne Juyol
Libera de Luca
Janine Micheau
Julien Giovannetti
Albert Wolff
Opéra-Comique orchestra and chorus
CD: Preiser
Cat:[5][6]
LP: Decca
Cat: LXT2615-17
1952 Risë Stevens
Richard Tucker
Nadine Conner
Paolo Silveri
Fritz Reiner
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
CD: Sony Classical
Cat: 88697 96189 2[6]
1952 Vera Borisenko
Georgii Nelepp
Elizaveta Shumskaya
Alexei Ivanov
Vassili Nebolsin
Bolshoi Theatre orchestra and chorus
(sung in Russian)
LP: MK
Cat: DO1508-15[4]
1954 Kerstin Meyer
Arne Hendriksen
Elisabeth Söderström
Sigurd Björling
Sixten Ehrling
Royal Swedish Opera orchestra and chorus
(sung in Swedish)
CD: Bluebell
Cat: ABCD109
Giulietta Simionato
Nicolai Gedda
Hilde Gueden
Michel Roux
Herbert von Karajan
Wiener Symphoniker
Singerverein
CD: Andante
Cat: AN3100[6]
Risë Stevens
Richard Tucker
Victoria de los Ángeles
Frank Guarrera
Tibor Kozma
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
CD: Gala
Cat: GL10063[6]
1955 Giulietta Simionato
Giuseppe Di Stefano
Rosanna Carteri
Michel Roux
Herbert von Karajan
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus
CD: Walhall
Cat: WLCD0156[6]
1956 Risë Stevens
Giuseppe Di Stefano
Lucine Amara
Robert Merrill
Max Rudolf
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
CD: Golden Melodram
Cat: 50070[6]
1957 Risë Stevens
Mario Del Monaco
Lucine Amara
Frank Guarrera
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
CD: Living Stage
Cat: LS1093[6]
1959 Victoria de los Ángeles
Nicolai Gedda
Janine Micheau
Ernest Blanc
Sir Thomas Beecham
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
CD: EMI Classics
Cat: CMS567357 2[5][6]
Irina Arkhipova
Mario Del Monaco
Irina Maslennikova
Pavel Lisitsian
Alexander Melik-Pashayev
Bolshoi Theatre orchestra and chorus
(sung in Russian and Italian)
CD: Myto
Cat: MCD053311[6]
Consuelo Rubio
Léopold Simoneau
Pierrette Alarie
Heinz Rehfuss
Pierre-Michel Le Conte
Concerts de Paris orchestra
and Paris Conservatoire chorus
LP: Concert Hall
Cat:[4]
1960 Sonia Cervená
Rolf Apreck
Maria Croonen
Robert Lauhöfer
Herbert Kegel
Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester
(sung in German)
CD: Classics
Cat: 0300119BC[6]
Irina Arkhipova
Mario Del Monaco
Marcella Pobbé
Ernest Blanc
Peter Maag
Teatro di San Carlo orchestra and chorus
CD: Gala
Cat: GL100676[6]
1961 Christa Ludwig
Rudolf Schock
Melitta Muszely
Hermann Prey
Horst Stein
Berliner Symphoniker, chorus of Deutsche Oper Berlin
(sung in German)
CD: EMI Electrola
Cat: 653 252 903-2
1962 Oralia Dominguez
Maria Stader
Josef Metternich
Josef Simandi
Ferenc Fricsay
Bavarian State Opera orchestra and chorus
LP: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 136032[6]
1963 Regina Resnik
Mario Del Monaco
Joan Sutherland
Tom Krause
Thomas Schippers
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Grand Théâtre de Genève chorus
LP: Decca
Cat: /London[5][6]
1964 Leontyne Price
Franco Corelli
Mirella Freni
Robert Merrill
Herbert von Karajan
Vienna Philharmonic orchestra
Vienna State Opera chorus
LP: RCA Victor Red Seal
LSC-6199
CD: RCA Victor Red Seal
Cat: 7432139495 2
[5][6]1965 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording
1964 Maria Callas
Nicolai Gedda
Andréa Guiot
Robert Massard
Georges Prêtre
Paris Opera orchestra and chorus
CD: EMI Classics
Cat:[5][6]
1970 Grace Bumbry
Jon Vickers
Mirella Freni
Kostas Paskalis
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Théâtre National de l'Opéra orchestra and chorus
CD: EMI Classics
Cat: 724358550528[5][6]
1970 Anna Moffo
Franco Corelli
Helen Donath
Piero Cappuccilli
Lorin Maazel
Deutsche Oper Berlin orchestra and chorus
CD: Sony
Cat: 88697446202
1973 Marilyn Horne
James McCracken
Adriana Maliponte
Tom Krause
Leonard Bernstein
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 0 28942 74402 8
SACD: PENTATONE
Cat: PTC 5186216[5]
1974 Régine Crespin
Gilbert Py
Jeannette Pilou
José van Dam
Alain Lombard
Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Rhine Opera Chorus
LP: RCA-Erato
Cat:[4]
1975 Tatiana Troyanos
Plácido Domingo
Kiri Te Kanawa
José van Dam
Sir Georg Solti
London Philharmonic Orchestra[7]
John Alldis choir
Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School choir
CD: Decca
Cat: 414 489-2[5][6]
1977 Teresa Berganza
Plácido Domingo
Ileana Cotrubaş
Sherrill Milnes
Claudio Abbado
London Symphony Orchestra
Ambrosian Singers
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat:[5][6]
1983 Agnes Baltsa
José Carreras
Katia Ricciarelli
José van Dam
Herbert von Karajan
Berliner Philharmoniker
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat:[5][6]
1984 Julia Migenes-Johnson
Plácido Domingo
Faith Esham
Ruggero Raimondi
Lorin Maazel
Orchestre National de France
Radio France chorus
(film directed by Francesco Rosi)
CD: ERATO
Cat: ECD 880373[5][6]
1988 Jessye Norman
Neil Shicoff
Mirella Freni
Simon Estes
Seiji Ozawa
Orchestre National de France
French National Radio Chorus
CD: Decca
Cat: 478 2488[5][6]
1989 Elena Obraztsova
Vladimir Atlantov
Margarita Miglau
Yuri Mazurok
Yuri Simonov
Bolshoi Theatre orchestra and chorus
(sung in Russian)
CD: Melodiya
Cat: MELCD1001516[6]
1990 Graciela Alperyn
Giorgio Lamberti
Doina Palade
Alan Titus
Alexander Rahbari
Czechoslovak Radio Symphony orchestra
Slovak Philharmonic chorus
CD: Naxos Opera Classics
Cat: 8660005-07[6]
1994 Béatrice Uria-Monzon
Christian Papis
Leontina Vaduva
Vincent Le Texier
Alain Lombard
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine
CD: Auvidis Valois
Cat: V 4734
1995 Jennifer Larmore
Thomas Moser
Angela Gheorghiu
Samuel Ramey
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Bayerische Staatsoper orchestra and chorus
CD: Teldec
Cat: 0630126722[6]
2002 Angela Gheorghiu
Roberto Alagna
Inva Mula
Thomas Hampson
Michel Plasson
Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse
CD: EMI Classics
Cat: 07243 557434 2 8
2002 Patricia Bardon
Julian Gavin
Mary Plazas
Gary Magee
David Parry
Philharmonia Orchestra
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
New London Children's Choir
(Sung in English)
CD: Chandos
Cat: CHAN3091[6]
2010 Marina Domashenko
Andrea Bocelli
Eva Mei
Bryn Terfel
Myung-whun Chung
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
CD: Decca
Cat:4757646[6]
2012 Magdalena Kožená
Jonas Kaufmann
Genia Kühmeier
Kostas Smoriginas
Simon Rattle
Berlin Philharmonic
Deutsche Oper Berlin Chorus
Deutsche Staatsoper Children's Chorus
CD: EMI Classics
Cat: 50999 4 40285 2 7

Video recordings

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Year Cast
(Carmen, Don José,
Micaëla, Escamillo)
Conductor,
Opera house and orchestra
Label
1956 Belén Amparan
Franco Corelli
Elda Ribetti
Anselmo Colzani
Nino Sanzogno
Italian Television orchestra and chorus
(video directed by Franco Enriquez)
DVD: Hardy
Cat: HCD4013[8]
1967 Grace Bumbry
Jon Vickers
Mirella Freni
Justino Díaz
Herbert von Karajan
Vienna Philharmonic orchestra
Vienna State Opera chorus
DVD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 00440 073 4032[9]
1978 Elena Obraztsova
Plácido Domingo
Isobel Buchanan
Yuri Mazurok
Carlos Kleiber
Vienna State Opera orchestra and chorus
DVD: TDK
Cat: 8 24121 00097 4
1984 Julia Migenes-Johnson
Plácido Domingo
Faith Esham
Ruggero Raimondi
Lorin Maazel
Orchestre National de France and chorus
Children's Chorus of Radio France
(film directed by Francesco Rosi)
DVD: Columbia TriStar
Cat: CDR 10530
Blu-ray: Gaumont
Cat: 750530
1985 Maria Ewing
Barry McCauley
Marie McLaughlin
David Holloway
Bernard Haitink
London Philharmonic Orchestra
(recorded at Glyndebourne Festival Opera)
DVD: Warner/NVC Arts
Cat: 4509-99494-2[10]
1987 Agnes Baltsa
José Carreras
Leona Mitchell
Samuel Ramey
James Levine
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
(staged by Franco Zeffirelli, video director Brian Large)
DVD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 00440 073 0009
2002 Anne Sofie von Otter
Marcus Haddock
Lisa Milne
Laurent Naouri
Philippe Jordan
London Philharmonic Orchestra
(recorded at Glyndebourne Opera House)
DVD: Opus Arte
Cat: OA 0867 D[11]
2006 Anna Caterina Antonacci
Jonas Kaufmann
Norah Amsellem
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
Antonio Pappano
Royal Opera House orchestra and chorus
(directed by Francesca Zambello)
DVD: Decca
Cat: 074 3312
Blu-ray: Decca
Cat: 3313[12]
2009 Anna Caterina Antonacci
Andrew Richards
Anne-Catherine Gillet
Nicolas Cavallier
John Eliot Gardiner
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Monteverdi Choir, Maitrise des Hauts-de-Seine
(directed by Adrian Noble)
DVD: Fra Musica
Cat: FRA004
2010 Elīna Garanča
Roberto Alagna
Barbara Frittoli
Teddy Tahu Rhodes
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
(directed for the stage by Richard Eyre)
DVD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 0044 073 4581 8[13]
2010 Stéphanie d'Oustrac
Gordon Gietz
Olga Pasichnyk
Jean-Luc Ballestra
Jean-Claude Casadesus
Opéra de Lille orchestra and chorus
(directed for the stage by Jean-François Sivadier)
DVD: France Inter
Cat: 597 501-9
2017 Elīna Garanča
Roberto Alagna
Maria Agresta
Ildar Abdrazakov
Mark Elder
Opéra national de Paris orchestra and chorus
(Recorded live, Opéra Bastille; Calixto Bieito, stage director)
HD video: medici.tv[14]
2018 Anna Goryachova
Francesco Meli
Kristina Mkhitaryan
Kostas Smoriginas
Jakub Hrůša
The Royal Opera orchestra and chorus
(Recorded live, 6 March 2018; Barrie Kosky, production)
HD video:
Royal Opera Stream[15]
2024 Aigul Akhmetshina
Piotr Beczała
Angel Blue
Kyle Ketelsen
Daniele Rustioni
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
(Recorded live, 27 January 2024; Carrie Cracknell, production)
HD video:
Met Opera on Demand[16]

References

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Notes

  1. ^ Recordings of Carmen on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
  2. ^ "Carmen. The first complete recording. Liner Notes by Harold Bruder". Marston Records. Archived from the original on 30 July 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  3. ^ "Carmen. Opéra-Comique Version Recorded in 1911. Liner Notes by Robert Baxter". Marston Records. Archived from the original on 23 December 2014. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  4. ^ a b c d Milnes R. Carmen. Opera on Record, ed Blyth. Hutchinson & Co, 1979, p478-9.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Gruber, pp. 48-59
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad "Bizet: Carmen". Presto Classical. Retrieved 30 March 2012.
  7. ^ Due to the recording being switched from Paris to London and clashes of dates, about a third of the opera was recorded by the National Philharmonic Orchestra. Stuart, Philip. "Decca Classical, 1929-2009". Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music, July 2009, accessed 28 August 2018.
  8. ^ O'Connor, Patrick (August 2004). "Bizet: Carmen". The Gramophone. Archived from the original on 2012-09-04.
  9. ^ "DVD review - Georges Bizet: Carmen - Karajan 1967". MusicWeb International (Christopher Howell). July 2005. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  10. ^ "DVD review - Georges Bizet: Carmen - Haitink". MusicWeb International (Arthur Baker). August 2006. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  11. ^ "DVD review - Georges Bizet: Carmen - Jordan". MusicWeb International (Tony Haywood). April 2003. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  12. ^ "DVD review - Georges Bizet: Carmen - Pappano". MusicWeb International (Simon Thompson). July 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  13. ^ "DVD review - Georges Bizet: Carmen - Nézet-Séguin". MusicWeb International (Göran Forsling). October 2010. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  14. ^ Bizet's Carmen, Paris Opera, 2017, medici.tv.
  15. ^ Carmen, Royal Opera, 2018, Royal Ballet & Opera Stream.
  16. ^ Bizet's Carmen, Metropolitan Opera, 2024, Met Opera on Demand.

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