Carmen / Universal ; [presented by] the Metropolitan Opera ; music by Georges Bizet ; libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy ; video director, Brian Large ; stage director, Paul Mills ; [producer, Samuel J. Paul].
Agnes Baltsa (Carmen), Leona Mitchell (Micaëla), José Carreras (Don José), Samuel Ramey (Escamillo), Myra Merritt, Diane Kesling, Anthony Laciura, Bruce Hubbard, Vernon Hartman, Ara Berberian, Nico Castel, Charles Duval ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; James Levine, conductor ; Metropolitan Opera Ballet. Some credits from booklet. Program notes and synopsis by Karl Dietrich Gräwe in English, German and French (23 p. : ill.) inserted in container. Based on the story by Prosper Mérimée. Recorded in digital PCM stereo. "Picture format: 4:3"--Container. Produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Feb. 1987.
Summary:
In 19th century Seville, Carmen seduces a naive Army corporal, Don José, who abandons his career, his fiancée, and his dying mother for Carmen.
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