Magdalena Kožená, Jonas Kaufmann, Genia Kühmeier, Kostas Smoriginas, Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle – Bizet: Carmen (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Magdalena Kožená, Jonas Kaufmann, Genia Kühmeier, Kostas Smoriginas, Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle – Bizet: Carmen (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:29:40 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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Carmen was premiered at the (second) Salle Favart, the home of Paris’ Opéra-Comique – then as now in the Place Boieldieu – on 3 March 1875. Georges Bizet, its composer, died of a heart attack exactly three months later, on 3 June, aged 36. In his short life he had written, in whole or in part, more than a dozen works for the lyric stage, ranging from one-act operettas to five-act grand operas: and had contemplated at least a dozen more. He was exceptionally well connected in the tight-knit and faintly incestuous musical world of mid-19th-century Paris, and almost universally well-liked. Over 4,000 mourners attended his funeral in the Église de la Sainte-Trinité – the location of Rossini’s in 1868 and Berlioz’s the year after – including his former mentor Charles Gounod, so emotionally overwrought that he was unable to finish the eulogy at the subsequent interment at Père Lachaise. That night – 5 June – Carmen was given its 33rd performance at the Salle Favart; and this time the press that had greeted the work’s premiere with almost unanimous hostility was suddenly to be found bemoaning the loss of one of French music’s greatest talents.

Opera was never going to be the same again. Single-handedly, Carmen redrew the boundaries both musically and especially dramatically, of what could be represented on an opera stage. When it finally returned to the Comique in 1883 in a bowdlerised version, there was public uproar, and the original had to be restored immediately. And in the selfsame year, the Comique was busy rehearsing Massenet’s Manon, which effectively abandons dialogue in favour of mélodrame (speech over music) and depicts – in the flagrant seduction of a priest, in church, by a trollop – a far more shockingly immoral event than anything in Bizet’s opera. Opera’s doors were now open to a fuller, franker depiction of real-life events and emotions on the operatic stage such as Émile Zola was bringing to the novel. He never lived long enough to see it happen, but Bizet’s objective had been fulfilled. The era of operatic verismo had dawned.

Tracklist:

Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Carmen / Opera in four acts
Act One
1. Prélude 03:20
2. No.1 Introduction: Sur la place, chacun passe, chacun… 02:01
3. Regardez donc cette petite qui semble vouloir nous parler 04:03
4. No.2 Marche et Chœur des gamins: Avec la garde montante,… 04:43
5. Nr. 3 Chœur et Scène: La cloche a sonné; nous, des ouvrières 04:01
6. Mais nous ne voyons pas la Carmencita!…Quand je vous… 01:09
7. No.4 Havanaise: L’amour est un oiseau rebelle 04:19
8. No.5 Scène: Carmen! sur tes pas nous nous pressons tous! 01:59
9. Que est-ce-que ça veut dire, ces façons-là? 00:17
10. No.6 Duo: Parle-moi de ma mère 09:36
11. Carmen, Act 1: Attends un peu 00:43
12. No.7 Chœur: Au secours! 02:60
13. Eh bien, José? Qu’est-ce qui c’est passé? 00:13
14. No.8 Chanson et Mélodrame: Avez-vous quelque chose à… 03:06
15. Laissez-moi échapper 00:30
16. No.9 Chanson et Duo: Près des remparts de Séville 04:32
17. No.10 Final: Voici l’ordre, partez 02:23
18. Entreacte 01:41
Act Two
19. No.11 Chanson: Les tringles des sistres tintaient avec un… 04:34
20. Vivat! vivat le Torero! 01:16
21. Votre toast, je peux vouz le rendre…Toréador, en garde! 05:02
22. Dis-moi ton nom 00:42
23. No.13bis: Toréador, en garde 01:11
24. Eh bien monsieur, quelles nouvelles 00:18
25. No.14 Quintette: Nous avons en tête une affaire 04:50
26. Partez sans moi, j’irai vous rejoindre demain 01:30
27. Enfin, te voilà! 00:36
28. No.16 Duo: Je vais danser en votre honneur 00:34
29. La-la-la-la…Attends un peu, Carmen 02:12
30. Au quartier! pour l’appel? 02:51
31. Au quartier! pour l’appel? 04:26
32. Non! tu ne m’aimes pas! 02:48
33. Non! Je ne veux plus t’écouter! 01:09
34. No.17 Final: Holà! Carmen! holà! holà! 01:22
35. Bel officier, l’amour vous joue en ce moment un assez… 01:13
36. Plus tard!…La guerre, c’est la guerre! 02:31
37. Entr’acte 02:39
Act Three
38. No.18 Introduction: Écoute, écoute, compagnon, écoute! 02:40
39. Notre métier est bien 01:39
40. À quoi tu penses? 00:38
41. No.19 Trio: Mêlons! Coupons! 03:07
42. Voyons que j’essaie à mon tour 01:02
43. En vain pour éviter 02:09
44. La mort… Parlez encor, parlez mes belles 00:52
45. Eh bien?…Eh bien, c’est plus compliqué que prévu! 00:28
46. No.20 Morceau d’Ensemble: Quant au douanier 03:05
47. No.21 Air: Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante 05:27
48. Qui êtes-vous, répondez! 00:07
49. Je suis Escamillo, Torero de Grenade! 00:59
50. Elle avait pour amant 00:37
51. Mais pour nous enlever nos filles de Bohème 00:48
52. Enfin ma colère…Quelle maladresse 01:18
53. Tout beau! 01:23
54. No.23 Final: Holà! holà! José! 02:32
55. Prends garde à toi…Carmen 00:37
56. Moi! Je viens te chercher! 01:06
57. Va-t’en – Tu me dis de la suivre! 03:13
58. Toréador, en garde! 00:59
59. Entr’acte 02:21
Act Four
60. No.24 Chœur: À deux cuartos! 02:07
61. No.25 Chœur et Scène: Les voici! Voici la quadrille! 03:46
62. Si tu m’aimes, Carmen 01:23
63. Carmen, un bon conseil 01:58
64. C’est toi – C’est moi 04:04
65. Tu m’aimes donc plus 05:55

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