Ludovic Halévy
6) Carmen
Publisher
C Major Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
In this production, world-famous and highly controversial stage director Calixto Bieito, admired for his evocative stagings, sees Carmen the embodiment of the mythical gypsy and touches upon sensitive issues such as racism, xenophobia and right-wing politics.
Publisher
Naxos
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Jacques Offenbach had already achieved fame as an operetta composer by 1866, but that year's premiere of La Vie Parisienne was his first portrayal of contemporary Parisian life. With its tale of romantic intrigues, disguises and comic celebrations of the mad gaiety of life in the French capital, La Vie Parisienne became popular in the nation's theatres, but not after a hasty re-working of its final acts after protests from the original performers....
Author
Publisher
TDK
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Français
Description
The first-ever release of Carlos Kleiber's famed Carmen on DVD! This 1978 performance features the wonder staging of Franco Zeffirelli and stars the young, lyrical Placido Domingo as Don Jose and Elena Obraztsova as a perfectly natural Carmen.
Author
Publisher
Marketed by Universal Music Classical
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Français
Description
Carmen, a beautiful sultry gypsy, woos the corporal Don José. Their relationship leads to his rejection of his former love, mutiny against his superior, and joining a gang of smugglers. His jelousy when she turns from him to the bullfighter Escamillo leads him to murder Carmen.
11) Carmen
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
"Complete companion to the opera: full libretto to the grand opera, 1875 version and opera-comique versions: plot summary: background information sources: performance history: biography of composer: musical themes."
15) Carmen
Publisher
Metropolitan Opera
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
Français
Description
Stage production of the opera in which Carmen (Agnes Baltsa) seduces, spurns, and is killed by Don José (José Carreras).
18) Carmen
Publisher
Deutsche Grammophon Video
Pub. Date
c2000, p1989
Language
Français
Description
In 19th cenetury Seville, Carmen seduces a naive Army corporal, Don Jose, who abandons his career, his fiancee, and his dying mother for Carmen.