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Carmen (1984)

Director: Francesco Rosi

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Cameraman Pasqualino De Santis' muted colours provide a suitable frame for Rosi's mixed realistic and balletic treatment of Bizet's opera, which climaxes in the symbolically red-clad Carmen goading her maddened victim into murder on the sun-baked sand. Lorin Maazel, heading the Orchestre National de France, conducts a musically first-rate performance; both leading men are, well, mature, but Domingo's bemused passion as the simple soldier is underpinned by magnificent burnished tones. The warm-voiced Carmen, Migenes-Johnson, fleetingly resembling a de-beaked Streisand, recalls a Broadway background in her engaging bump-and-grind concept of sexuality - a reminder that Carmen is simply the best musical ever written. Hugely enjoyable for opera buff and non-buff alike. MHoy.

Author: MHoy 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Cast & crew

Director: Francesco Rosi

Producer: Patrice Ledoux

Cast: Julia Migenes-Johnson, Placido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi, Faith Esham, François Le Roux, Jean-Paul Bogart full cast

Genre(s): Musicals

Duration: 152 mins


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