BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 52 - Bizet’s Carmen from Glyndebourne (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: Anja Bihlmaier conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra, mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb takes the title role and tenor Evan LeRoy Johnson plays her hot-blooded toreador lover Don José.

01. Bizet – Carmen, Act I&II
(semi-staged; sung in French with English surtitles)
01a. Introduction to BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 52 - Bizet’s Carmen from Glyndebourne
01b. BBC Proms 2024 – Prom 52 - Bizet’s Carmen from Glyndebourne, interval
02. Bizet – Carmen, Acts III&IV

During the interval Sarah Lenton talks to Martin Handley about Bizet's Carmen - its background and its influence.

Rihab Chaieb (Carmen)
Evan LeRoy Johnson (Don José)
Lukasz Goliński (Escamillo)
Janai Brugger (Micaëla)
Dingle Yandell (Zuniga)
Thomas Mole (Moralès)
Elisabeth Boudreault (Frasquita)
Kezia Bienek (Mercédès)
Loïc Félix (Le Dancaïre)
François Piolino (Le Remendado)
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera makes its traditional visit to the Proms with that most red-blooded of red-blooded operas, Carmen. Bizet’s musical tale of a Gypsy factory-worker who seduces a military corporal before discarding him for the more glamorous toreador has all the ingredients of a tightly sprung operatic drama. Anja Bihlmaier conducts Glyndebourne’s fine cast and chorus, along with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.


First broadcast: 29 August 2024
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