Carmen [videorecording] / 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].
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Marketed by Universal Classics Group, Marketed by Universal Classics Group,
Copyright Date:
c2000, p1989
Description:
1 videodisc (172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
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. 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. 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.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)45952561
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.