Bizet: Carmen
) | Label: FRA Musica Catalog: FRA004 Format: DVD Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Adrian Noble, The Monteverdi Choir, Maîtrise de Hauts-de-Seine, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et RomantiqueGeorges Bizet Behind the near-mystical figure of the emancipated woman, the dazzling spectacle of the group tableau and vibrant seduction of the Spain of dreams, all its authenticity and brilliance have been restored to the world's most performed opera in the opera house where it was first performed in 1875. A veritable back to the origins for the masterpiece by Georges Bizet, who died at the age of thirty six, only a few weeks after finishing his controversial work, the tremendous success of which he was never to know. By presenting it here in a brand-new version with instruments of the period, in an endeavour to rekindle the original musical and theatrical flame, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Adrian Noble have reconstructed the unusual movement of the chorus and difficult dialogue between characters as a human, carnal tragedy. |