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Bizet: Carmen
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Artist
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Giulietta Simionato, Nicolai Gedda, Hilde Guden & others. Wiener Symphoniker. Herbert von Karajan, conductor.
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Label
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Urania
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Format
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2 CDs
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Runtime/Release Date
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77'55,66'57/2004
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Label Number
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11918
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Daedalus Item Code
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27213
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This item is not available.
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Description
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This 1950s Vienna Carmen stars Giulietta Simionato in a role she never recorded commercially. The work of both conductor and star is imbued with exceptional dramatic fire and technical brilliance. (No libretto.) "The performance is stunning. I've always felt that Karajan's best work, particularly in opera, took place in the 1950s…. There is no denying the beauty, power, and absolute security of Simionato's voice. This is certainly one of the more impressively sung Carmens on disc.… The Don José is the Swedish tenor, Nicolai Gedda. Typical of this superb artist's work, Gedda is a master of French diction and style. Gedda, twenty-nine at the time of this recording, is also in his freshest and most beautiful voice…. Hilde Güden is an absolutely exquisite Micaëla. Baritone Michel Roux is wonderful as the bullfighter Escamillo—virile, suave, and vocally assured. The various subsidiary roles, taken by highly accomplished and well-known singers of the era, add to the special quality of this Carmen."—Opera Today
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