Kasarova sings Carmen's Habanera (2004)

Bizet's Carmen: Act I entrance aria: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Habanera)

Vesselina Kasarova at an open-air concert on the Prinzengracht Canal (she's on a floating pontoon) in Amsterdam in 2004. Accompanied on the piano by Charles Spencer. Kasarova is slated to debut as Carmen in Zurich in June 2008.

Video clip of the concert is available at http://www.nposales.com/?article=1504&template=program
(she sings arias of Tancredi, Orphee, Rosina, and 2 Bulgarian songs)

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• prinzengracht
• Vesselina
• Kasarova
• Bizet
• Carmen
• Habanera
• L'amour
• est
• un
• oiseau
• rebelle
• charles
• spencer
• smorg

[PinkPixie155]

@Chilair1

Yeah!! I mean, it's even white... white?! -_-

[SDCmorg]

Have a look at the setting. She is doing a concert of many arias from many different operas, and not a staged performance of Carmen (as I have already pointed out a month ago).

[Chilair1]

why is she singing carmen in pants!!

[SDCmorg]

She wasn't singing in the opera. She was doing a song recital and this was just one of the many numbers (she started the show with Tancredi's aria, then followed with Orphee's... before finally getting to the female character arias).

Happy Holidays! :o)

[Teckwolf]

too bad about the retarded clapping

[SDCmorg]

O, it's a fun concert. No harm in the audience enjoying the music, I think.

I love watching this performance as much for the youthfulness and the enthusiasm of the audience as for Kasarova and Spencer's music making. It's refreshing compare to the sea of gray hair in stiff tux I see when I go to the opera. It makes me hopeful that the genre will persist as long as young audience can 'get into it'... You know. :o)

[1958Zarina]

Well, I am always surprised how opinions may differ. The vibrato is one of her greatest assets. And to call her rich voice a fake, frankly, I think you are either out of touch with music or you have a personal reason to bash this artist. Even her harshest critics wouldn't say such a stupidity.

[LeTraveler09]

She is absolutely amazing. I love this song. Awesome, completely awesome. No doubt about it.

[evelina72]

How good she is and how proud I am that she is also Bulgarian...

[BricksHappy]

I dont think that is a correct place for a Diva like Vesseli Kasarova, but is nice anyway.

Willisses Douglas, Zurich. CH

[Onry1]

I thought it was great, different but great. For all those who think she's copying Callas? How so? Callas is a soprano, Kasarova is more of a mezzo, if anything she sounds more like Church than Callas

[bmh4d0k3n]

I think it's wonderful that the audience is getting into the music enough that they want to participate!

[strauss12345]

I have to say I agree. The clapping is annoying and it takes away from the music. She didn't even invite the audience to clap!

[rayangreene]

lupelarzabal, I find you very critical. She does a good job here. It's not her best performance, but to claim that she's imitating Callas is preposterous. Callas' rendition is completely different. As for her colour, I really like it, especially the original way she uses her chest register. Now about her French, please ! Her diction is impeccable, says native speaker! I just can't wait to see her in Agrippina in Zurich in May 2009 with the marvellous Marijana Mijanovic, Hartelius & Bonitatibus.