Bizet Carmen

Overview

Live recording from Oper Zurich, 2008, DVD release 2014. Jonas Kaufmann, 'the Prince of Tenors', appears with international star Vesselina Kasarova in Zürich Opera's starkly palpable staging of Bizet's ever-popular Carmen. The production sees Don José (Kaufmann) abandon his teenage attitudes in pursuit of Kasarova's free and independent Carmen - realising too late that his self-control has vanished, along with his youth.

Cast

Jonas Kaufmann

Don José

Vesselina Kasarova

Carmen

Michele Pertusi

Escamillo

Isabel Rey

Micaëla

N/A

Morgan Moody

Zuniga

N/A

Krešimir Stražanac

Moralés

Michele Pertusi

N/A

Sen Guo

N/A

Judith Schmid

N/A

Gabriel Bermúdez

Javier Camarena

N/A

Franz Welser-Möst

Conductor