IA1676005 Catalog_time 418 Country US Derive_submittime 01:14:46 Disccount 1 External-identifier The singers are miked in this performance experienced on film, the sound is quite effective, with some of the ensemble singing coming over more clearly than in an acoustic performance.Adaptive_ocr true Addeddate 02:18:24 Betterpdf true Bookreader-defaults mode/1up Boxid IA1600307 Bizet purists will hate it because it uses Guiraud's recitatives instead of the spoken dialogue. Ewing's 1999 version, filmed at London's Earl's Court, is a bit of a circus.
It's as if Bizet was learning his craft and finally cracked how to do it in this final act. Ewing and Lima are particularly effective together in the short, final act which is the only part of the opera that is through-composed without any spoken dialogue. This production is to be preferred to the 1985 film because Luis Lima is a more effective Don Jose. In this 1989 production from Covent Garden she combines sensuousness and volatility in a way that is thrilling and frightening. Carmen has certainly been good to Maria Ewing. Bizet's influence seems to have been felt much more by composers and librettists such as Gershwin, Bernstein and Hammerstein rather than 20th century opera composers. I am not even sure if I would call it an opera it is much more like a Hollywood musical. The irony is that I cannot stand this opera any more. To be honest, it turned me on to Maria Ewing and, through her, to opera. Her 1985 performance, from Glyndebourne, was what originally turned me on to opera. Maria Ewing has starred in at least three versions of Bizet's Carmen.
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