Teresa BERGANZA & Placido DOMINGO *Carmen*- finale

[CartoonOperatics93]

@TheMusiloco Don't you mean "how manyy sopranos will have been killed by this tenor?"

[CartoonOperatics93]

@KlassischerTheo

Opera's Most Wanted:

Placido Domingo the serial killer

Very Dangerous Criminal

Killed many Carmens in his career

$100,000,000 Reward for his capture! XD

[TheMusiloco]

@CartoonOperatics93 How Ghastly!How many sopranos will have killed this tenor?Previous, I´ve seen this same duet with Shirley Verret, the Afroamerican Mezzosoprano recently died. His singing and his behaviour like Carmen is very different respect Berganza maybe because it´s not frecuent a Gipsy Woman too Black or with afroamerican features. It doesn´t mean that She isn´t a great voice, but it´s very difficult playing a Mediterranean and Spanish character.

[Rospaint]

Domingo was fantastic as Jose with Agnes Baltsa as Carmen- in their prime.

Pity there are almost no videos of those great performances.

[millonety123]

Carmen es una opera de fineza musical y elegancia francesas pero su espiritu es racialmente español y mediterraneo. Esto es indudable para la mayoria. Domingo&Berganza lo 'hacen' tan bien en este rol porque participan de TODAS esas caracteristicas anteriores. Ese es el truco¡

[baltoman24]

Bizarre changes to the final pages- do we have Oeser to thank for that? This was certainly very good, but would recommend Jane Rhodes 1960 recording with Albert Lance for an astounding unforgetable experience as these 10 minutes of great music can be!

[KlassischerTheo]

Ha,Ha...not the first time, i' ve seen a few carmens more stabbed by him :B

[issueagent]

first time im seeing placido domingo kill somebody?

[KlassischerTheo]

Domingo's voice conveys such truthfulness of feelings. For me, He really excels in Puccini and Bizet’s roles. The faintly Spanish accent in both singers also appeals me very much. It gives the whole thing a huge sense of reality. GREAT BERGANZA & DOMINGO!!!!

[andreea94a]

Not only they sing great,but they are also great actors.

[Fegen]

Vocally Berganza and Domingo are both terrific in this video. BRAVO!

[AmericanEvita]

Berganza fans love her as Carmen (as in her Abbado recording) but I think that Carmen was not suited to her. She has a light mezzo soprano voice better suited for Rossini opera. Her Rosina in Barbieri di Seviglia is wonderful, as is her Cenerentola. She had an impressive career as a recitalist and her Mozart roles like Zerlina and Despina were excellent. Carmen calls for a bigger, dramatic mezzo soprano voice with more fire. Berganza had charm and grace, but not fire and passion.

[amonasro100]

@AmericanEvita

You are right, Berganza is a little to elegant, but her singing is not bad. A bit more sex appeal would be nice. 

[moviegurl16]

is there any version where they actually sing in spanish?

[PEAinSwe]

Two singers that completely understand their parts. Superb!

[sidhartafriedchicken]

Who's the stage director?

[adina12100]

Pasión y muerte magníficamente escenificadas.Existe feeling entre Plácido Domingo y Teresa Berganza!Bravo!!!Desde Barcelona gracias BravaBerganza!

[adina12100]

Pasión y muerte magníficamente escenificadas.Existe feeling entre Plácido Domingo y Teresa Berganza!Bravo!!!

[vivegedda]

out of style again.Very bad french phrasing!!

[123perleviediroma]

fantastici tutti e due!

[a96577]

che bello placido domingo!!

[HappyHounde]

Domingo is great. Berganza looks like his mother.

[Villazonlover1]

@HappyHounde I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks that!!!

[Bzcenci]

@HappyHounde

Berganza is forever young, besides, who said  that Carmen wasn't older than Don José? She must have been pretty much experienced, and he a young and innocent soldier.

[Kaloyeropoulos]

I have seen the production Kaufman Antonacci.

I think they sing very well but I think Bumbry is amaizing.

[gabrielleaviva]

Yikes, Domingo is wonderful!!!!

[Loemsa]

Berganza as une très belle voix mais n'est pas assez belle pour jouez Carmen :)

[PSkitt82]

It's quite strange hearing Domingo sing in French, after hearing him sing in Italian as well as Spanish. Even when he sings in English, it's quite interesting too. But, he still sure pulls everything off, no matter what he sings :).

[AmericanEvita]

@PSkitt82 Domingo is very talented and sings in many languages, including German (when he sings Wagner) and Russian (when he sings Tchaikovsky). His French is excellent. You need to hear him sing Gounod's Faust in the role of Faust, it's marvelous.

[jackylen57]

Merveilleux ! Bravo ! Domingo est superbe dans ce rôle !

[MastersoftheOpera]

Domingo was born to sing Don Jose. Berganza I love but not as Carmen. Her voice is purely lyric and she doesn't have the sizzling fire and sex appeal that Grace Bumbry had as Carmen. My favorite is Grace Bumbry.

[getlost0204]

I hate the costumes, but the singing is good. Although I think that Berganza is a master in Rossini. She sang Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia like no other.

[paulostroff99]

Lovely singing! Brava!  Bravo!

[Lord7777777]

In my opinion, i think that the best Carmen in every aspect of a production was one in which was Jonas Kaufman and Anna Antonacci. Is wonderful!! It was made in Convent Garden and had it everything: clothing (quite sexi, speccially Carmen's), the lights were great, the quality of the voices was great and not mention the orchesta and the chorus, there is no other version compared. I dont like this one because everybody seems to be singing quite slowly, but if it would be faster it would better...

[1810fox]

Who cares your opinion?

[Juancarzgz7]

¿Perdonamos al ignorante que se atreve a decir que le actriz Maria Ewin pueda ni de lejos acercarse a La simpar Berganza? no se yo, no se yo...

[bremskloetzken]

placido is great, but I have seen Maria Ewing as Carmen. IMO she's the better Carmen.

[Misstroble90]

One or two nice moments - eg laugh at end before stabbing and some good indifferent expressions towards Jose but she's not the greatest Carmen. A little old for the part and clumsy in her movements. Voice too light in places. Fantastic performance by Domingo.

[Aylissan]

I grew up listening to this version of Carmen, but have never seen it before. I've seen many others perfotm this, but in my opinion, none reach Berganza's level. thank you so much for uploading!!!

[harmonicana80]

As someone who grew up listening to opera, I get a warm fuzzy feeling every time someone implies the same.

Just an aside, carry on. :D

[berganzita]

Anda que la gente es bruta! La Carmen de la berganza es histórica y su interpretación perfecta...ya quisiera la Migenes llegarla al tobillo. En fin... hay gustos pa tó!

[Congruky]

Normalmente cuando las cantantes que hacen Carmen no son españolas, les cuesta porque confunden mujer de carácter como es Carmen con histerismo, el caracter español Teresa Berganza lo bordó. Vocalmente Berganza se tomó muy seriamente su estudio porque sabía que no era un papel para su voz e hizo una Carmen "berganrizada". Me encantó

[Chaconnesque]

What a ridiculous, panicking Carmen! Very well sung, but I can hardly say the same of her acting! But Domingo is magnificent, as always!

[k6l11h58]

Check out the best Carmen: on DVD, Placido Domingo & Julia Migenes. She's - as far as I am concerned - the ultimate Carmen.

[jose2carreras]

Was this the same stage performance where Sherrill Milnes was Escamillo?

[BravaBerganza01]

no, unfortunately no - Escamillo in this performance was Ruggero Raimondi and Micaela is Katia Ricciarelli... I prefer audio version with BERGANZA (of course), Domingo, Milnes and Cotrubas. My the most favourite recording of Carmen!

[Y2H]

I don´t like this arranegemnt so much.

[Y2H]

No wait, I HATE it.

[singinginachurch]

" C`est toi?"

" C`est moi!" LOVE that line!

Tethers the tension between Carmen and Don Juan wonderfully.

[Y2H]

Me too, though I don´þ know why!

[getlost0204]

It's actually Don Jose.

[StCorentin]

This performance took place in Paris Opera Comique (salle Favart) which is the place where the Bizet opera was créated in 1875.