Adriana Maliponte

Adriana Maliponte – Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 (1973/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:39:33 minutes | 2,96 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

In June 1830 Prosper Mérimée left Paris for Spain. The French capital had become a little too warm for comfort. During the previous few years Mérimée had lived the life of a literary lion cub: he had argued and drunk through many hours with Stendhal, he had gone whoring with Alfred de Musset, he had become a good friend of Eugène Delacroix. But he had also behind him a trail of broken love affairs, including one with Mary Woolstencraft Shelley, and he had fought a duel, which left him with a damaged arm, over a matter of sexual honour. It was time to slow down the pace of life, to allow the wounds, physical and emotional, a chance to heal.
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