Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 (Remastered) Marilyn Horne, James McCracken & Leonard Bernstein

• Georges Bizet (1838-1875): Carmen, WD 31:
• 1Prélude04:20
• Act 1:
• 2"Sur la place chacun passe"06:01
• 3"Allez, dépêchez-vous! ... Avec la garde montante"04:32
• 4"Dites-moi, brigadier?"00:46
• 5"Voici la cloche qui sonne ... La cloche a sonné"06:05
• 6"Mais nous ne voyons pas la Carmencita"01:13
• 7"L'amour est un oiseau rebelle"04:51
• 8"Carmen, sur tes pas nous nous pressons tous"02:28
• 9"Monsieur le brigadier?" - "Parle-moi de ma mère!"09:22
• 10"Attends un peu maintenant"00:22
• 11"Eh bien! Qu'est-ce qui arrive? ... Au secours! Au secours!"03:39
• 12"Eh bien, brigadier?" - "Tra la la la ..."04:01
• 13"Près des remparts de Séville"04:56
• 14"Le lieutenant! Prenez garde! ... L'amour est enfant de Bohème"02:31
• 15Entr'acte I01:43
• Act 2:
• 16"Les tringles des sistres tintaient"04:50
• 17"Mon Dieu, messieurs, il commence à se faire tard"00:35
• 18"Vivat! vivat le toréro!"01:27
• 19"Votre toast ... je peux vous le rendre"05:31
• 20"Dis-moi ton nom"00:41
• 21"Toréador, en garde"01:07
• 22"Eh bien, les nouvelles?"00:30
• 23"Nous avons en tête une affaire"04:27
• 24"Amoureuse ... ce n'est pas une raison, cela" - "Halte là! Qui va là?" - "Ecoutez, la voilà"03:14
• 25"Je vais danser en votre honneur"06:00
• 26"La fleur que tu m'avais jetée"04:29
• 27"Non, tu ne m'aimes pas!"04:29
• 28"Holà! Carmen!"05:23
• 29Entr'acte II03:01
• Act 3:
• 30"Écoute, compagnon, écoute ... Notre metier est bon"04:25
• 31"Voyons, Carmen ... faisons la paix"00:47
• 32"Mêlons! Coupons!"02:54
• 33"Carreau, pique ... la mort! ... En vain, pour éviter les réponses amères"03:54
• 34"Parlez encore, parlez, mes belles"00:44
• 35"Holà, les belles!"00:51
• 36"Quant au douanier, c'est notre affaire"03:37
• 37"Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante"05:23
• 38"Qui va là?" - "Je suis Escamillo"03:46
• 39"Holà, holà, José!"03:15
• 40"Moi? Je viens te chercher"05:13
• 41Entr'acte III02:24
• Act 4:
• 42"A deux cuartos"02:16
• 43"Les voici! Voici la quadrille"04:16
• 44"Si tu m'aimes, Carmen"02:06
• 45"Carmen, un bon conseil"01:53
• 46"C'est toi?" - "C'est moi!"09:14
• Total Runtime02:39:32

Info for Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 (Remastered)

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.

The Spanish journey was financed by Mérimée’s father and the purpose was to look over a number of museums. Léono Mérimée was secretary of the School of Fine Arts in Paris and his son Prosper was entrusted to make notes on a number of Spanish pictures of interest. However, as Mérimée has made clear in several letters, the Spanish outdoors was considerably more interesting to him than the Spanish indoors. The travels and the people encountered, particularly those on the wrong side of the law, were the thing.

Some of these meetings are included in Mosaïque, a collection of Mérimée’s occasional writings. Among them is the story of a brief stop at an inn for a bowl of gazpacho. Mérimée records that the moment he had left the place his guide turned round and claimed that it was a bad house. ...

Colette Boky, soprano
Marcia Baldwin, mezzo-soprano
Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano
Adriana Maliponte, soprano
Raymond Gibbs, tenor
The Manhattan Opera Chorus
John Mauceri, conductor (Chorus)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Digitally remastered

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