English music album Overtures & Intermezzi. The reason for it surely lies in the conductor Carlos Kleiber, who directed that première and stamped it with his own personality. Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 - Prelude To Act 1 song by Staatskapelle Dresden, Silvio Varviso now on JioSaavn. Nearly 35 years has passed since then, and the Vienna State Opera has seen many a performance of the Zeffirelli production of “Carmen”, with singers who were certainly no less eminent than the first cast – but none of them have achieved the cult status the first night enjoys in the memories of opera- lovers. “The applause”, according to the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, “threatened to last as long as a full-length opera”, and the legend of Carlos Kleiber’s Vienna “Carmen” was born. The Viennese audience in the opera house hailed the performance as a triumph. The cast was completed by the young Isobel Buchanan who stood in at this production at short notice and included Yuri Mazurok who was later to become a high ranking Verdi baritone. Plácido Domingo, still the young lyrical tenor, starred as “Don Jose”, and Elena Obraztsova gave a wonderful natural “Carmen”, a far cry from the usual she-devil erotic cliché. Carlos Kleiber conducted an extraordinary cast. In December 1978, the masterly Franco Zefirelli created a colourful and atmospheric imagery while the musical genius of Kleiber drew from the music a rhythmic vitality and subtle passion that never lost its transparency and lightness. The Zefirelli staging is the only premiere that Kleiber ever conducted. The meticulous conductor only ever conducted a highly selected repertoire and among his very few audio and video recordings are only seven complete operas. Arthaus presents a sensational filmed document from the musical legacy of Carlos Kleiber: The wonderful staging of “Carmen” by director Franco Zeffirelli in a live recording from the Vienna State Opera in 1978.
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