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Bizet: Carmen

Bizet: Carmen

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 1, 2014

Runtime

2h 51m

Genres

Music

Original Title

Bizet: Carmen

Production Companies

The Metropolitan Opera

Director

Matthew Diamond

Description

Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the woman who lives by her own rules. Aleksandrs Antonenko is Don José, the soldier who falls under her spell, and Ildar Abdrazakov plays Escamillo, the swaggering bullfighter who takes Carmen away from Don José—an action that seals Carmen’s tragic fate. Anita Hartig is Micaëla, and Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Richard Eyre’s hit production, set in 1930s Spain.