the filming and sound mixing leave much to be desired. So why did we have to wait so long to get this in Blu-ray? This may be explained by Steven Jude Tietjen in the October 2021 Opera News at pages 62-63 stating that “. Gardiner’s orchestra produces, per critic Tim Ashley, a raw period sound that supports Antonacci (Carmen) and Richards (José) in creating an “erotic charge that helps you understand why its first audiences found Carmen obscene.” Using a then new critical edition, the Noble/Gardiner version is scaled down, intimate, and has original spoken dialog that has been abandoned in most other productions.

Critics reviewing the disc were favorable even while they ranked it as runner-up to the famous Covent Garden Blu-ray of Carmen that had come out in 2008 with Antonacci and Kaufman. This video harks back to 2009, and it was published in 2010 by FRAmusica (with the eye-catching cut-through keepcase cover), but in DVD only. Released 2021, disc has 5.0 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Set and costume design by Mark Thompson lighting design by Jean Kalman movement collaborator was Sue Lefton. Sir John Eliot Gardner conducts the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, the Monteverdi Choir, and the Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine (Chorus Master Gaël Darchen).

Stars Anna Caterina Antonacci (Carmen), Andrew Richards (Don José), Anne-Catherine Gillet (Micaëla), Nicolas Cavallier (Escamillo), Virginie Pochon (Frasquita), Annie Gill (Merédès), Matthew Brook (Zuniga), Riccardo Novaro (Moralès), Françis Dudziak (Le Dancaïre) Vincent Ordonneau (Le Remendado), and Simon Davies (Lillas Pastia). Directed 2009 by Adrian Noble at the Opéra Comique.

Bizet Carmen opera to libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.

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