Claudio Abbado's 1978 Carmen is an elegant, dramatically convincing reading of the Opéra-Comique version of Bizet's score, with spoken dialogue. There's no such thing as a perfect Carmen -- too many versions of the score, too many types of voices to sing the title role and opinions on which is best, and so on. But it would be hard to go wrong with ...
The sad thing about this 2008 Deutsche Grammophon disc is not the music, which is unfailingly bright and cheerful, nor the program, which is consistently surprising and delightful, nor the performances, which are unendingly smiling and life-affirming. The sad thing about this disc compiled and conducted by Claudio Abbado called Marce & Danze ...
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