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CARMEN

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An opera in four acts
Libretto, after PROSPER MÉRIMÉE by HENRI MEILHAC and LUDOVIC HALEVY
Music by Bizet sung in French
Cast in order of singing:
Soldiers, cigarette girls, gypsies, smugglers
SALZBURG FESTIVAL CHAMBER CHOIR and CHILDREN'S CHORUS
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS Chorus-Master,
Walter Hagen Groll VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted and produced by Herbert von Karajan
Recording from the 1967 Salzburg Festival: made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio
The action takes place in and around Seville about 1830
ACT 1: A square in Seville
ACT 2: The tavern of LillasPastia
8.46' INTERVAL
Piano music by Faur6: record
8.56* ACT 3
A desolate part of the mountains
ACT 4
Outside the bullring in Seville See page 50

Contributors

Unknown:
Henri Meilhac
Unknown:
Ludovic Halevy
Produced By:
Herbert von Karajan
Morales, a corporal:
Robert Kerns (barilone)
Micaela, a country girl:
Mirella Freni (soprano)
Zuniga, a lieutenant:
Anton Diakov (bass)
Don José, a corporal:
Jon Vickers (tenor)
Carmen a gypsy:
Grace Bumbry (mezzo-Soprano)
Her friends::
Olivera Miljakovic (soprano)
Her friends::
Julia Hamari (mezzo-Soprano)
Escamillo, a toreador:
Justino Diaz (baritone)
Smugglers ::
John van Kesteren (tenor)
Smugglers ::
Milen Paunov (tenor)
Source: Radio Times

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