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Carmen (The Restored Edition) [DVD]
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Audience Rating: Parental Guidance Binding: DVD Brand: SECOND SIGHT EAN: 5028836032021 Format: PAL, Colour, Widescreen, Dolby Label: Second Sight Films Languages: Manufacturer: Second Sight Films MPN: 5028836032021 Number Of Discs: 2 Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Second Sight Films Region Code: 2 Release Date: July 18, 2011 Running Time: 149 minutes Studio: Second Sight Films |
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
This movie version of Bizet's popular opera Carmen was filmed on location, conveying a kind of atmosphere, a sense of space, movement, and presence that's hard to achieve in a staged performance. It takes the action out of doors for many scenes, with the opening titles superimposed on the bloody conclusion of a bullfight. Elsewhere the changing of the guard, the crowd scenes, the dance number that opens Act 2, and the panoramic scenery of the smugglers' mountain hideout all benefit from the freedom granted by movie cameras.
It's an exciting Carmen, too, with a young-looking Placido Domingo in top form for a role he has sung hundreds of times. For Julia Migenes, though, it was her first performance in a role she would have trouble performing in an opera house. Her voice does not fit easily into Carmen's range, and she spent months training it, very successfully, before singing the role in a recording studio where the soundtrack was taped before the film was shot. Casting her in the role was a gamble, but it worked; she is a convincing actress. Unlike most opera-house performances this movie version uses the opera's original opera comique form with some spoken dialogue rather than recitatives.--Joe McLellan, Amazon.com
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