Carmen discography
Year Cast ( Carmen , Don José , Micaëla , Escamillo ) Conductor , Opera house and orchestra Label
1956 Belén Amparan Franco Corelli Elda Ribetti Anselmo Colzani Nino Sanzogno Italian Television orchestra and chorus ( video directed by Franco Enriquez Hardy ) DVD : Hardy Cat : HCD4013
1967 Grace Bumbry Jon Vickers Mirella Freni Justino Díaz Herbert von Karajan Vienna Philharmonic orchestra Vienna State Opera chorus DVD : Deutsche Grammophon Cat : 00440 073 4032
1978 Elena Obraztsova Plácido Domingo Isobel Buchanan Yuri Mazurok Carlos Kleiber Vienna State Opera orchestra and chorus DVD : TDK Cat : 8 24121 00097 4
1984 Julia Migenes-Johnson Plácido Domingo Faith Esham Ruggero Raimondi Lorin Maazel Orchestre National de France and chorus Children 's Chorus of Radio France ( film directed by Francesco Rosi ) DVD : Columbia TriStar Cat : CDR 10530 Blu-ray : Gaumont Cat : 750530
1985 Maria Ewing Barry McCauley Marie McLaughlin David Holloway Bernard Haitink London Philharmonic Orchestra ( recorded at Glyndebourne Festival Opera ) DVD : Warner/NVC Arts Cat : 4509-99494-2
1987 Agnes Baltsa José Carreras Leona Mitchell Samuel Ramey James Levine Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus ( staged by Franco Zeffirelli , video director Brian Large ) DVD : Deutsche Grammophon Cat : 00440 073 0009
2002 Anne Sofie von Otter Marcus Haddock Lisa Milne Laurent Naouri Philippe Jordan London Philharmonic Orchestra ( recorded at Glyndebourne Opera House ) DVD : Opus Arte Cat : OA 0867 D
2006 Anna Caterina Antonacci Jonas Kaufmann Norah Amsellem Ildebrando D'Arcangelo Antonio Pappano Royal Opera House orchestra and chorus ( directed by Francesca Zambello ) DVD : Decca Cat : 074 3312 Blu-ray : Decca Cat : 3313
2009 Anna Caterina Antonacci Andrew Richards Anne-Catherine Gillet Nicolas Cavallier John Eliot Gardiner Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique Monteverdi Choir , Maitrise des Hauts-de-Seine ( directed by Adrian Noble ) DVD : Fra Musica Cat : FRA004
2010 Elīna Garanča Roberto Alagna Barbara Frittoli Teddy Tahu Rhodes Yannick Nézet-Séguin Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus ( directed for the stage by Richard Eyre ) DVD : Deutsche Grammophon Cat : 0044 073 4581 8
2010 Stéphanie d'Oustrac Gordon Gietz Olga Pasichnyk Jean-Luc Ballestra Jean-Claude Casadesus Opéra de Lille orchestra and chorus ( directed for the stage by Jean-François Sivadier ) DVD : France Inter Cat : 597 501-9
Video recordings
This is a discography of audio and video recordings of Carmen, a French-language opera by Georges Bizet. The opera premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875. Carmen is one of the most frequently recorded operas, dating back to a near-complete German acoustical recording in 1908.