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Review title: Dreadful
Product review: Herbert von Karajan never understood Bizet's Carmen. This opera was composed for the Opera-Comique with dialogues, not unlike Offenbach's operettas. Karajan conducts an opultent, glossy performance were the drama and style are completely drown. Agnes Baltsa had a great Carmen in her, so she is the great loss of this recording. Carreras is touching and vulnerable, but his French is just terrible. Even worse, the use of actors in the dialogues is completely unacceptable and ridiculous. DG has the finest CARMEN ever recorded with Teresa Berganza and Claudio Abbado. Everything that is wrong in Karajan's recording is right in the Abbado. Please buy the earlier, much greater recording, even the ADD sound is finer than this digital mess.
