Carmen

La Scala, Milan

July 3, 2010, 1:00 pm

Composer: Georges Bizet
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim

Cast: Anita Rachvelishvili (Carmen);
Jonas Kaufmann (Don Jose);
Erwin Schrott (Escamillo);
Adriana Damato (Micaela);
Gabor Bretz (Zuniga);
Michele Losier (Frasquita);
Mathias Hausmann (Morales);
Adriana Kucerova (Mercedes)

Bizet's masterpiece may have a greater selection of hummable tunes than any other opera, and also the purest, most smoldering brand of passion -- and we hear it hear in the quarter's second production from a true hotbed of opera, Milan's La Scala.

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