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This recording was made near the end of Maria Callas's career. It is a role she never sang onstage, but it suited her almost perfectly, and she gives a deep, compelling performance on this recording. The mezzo-soprano tessitura was comfortable for her voice, and the role did not call for a pretty sound. Nor did the recording studio require the kind of huge vocal power expected in an opera house. And furthermore, the character of a strong-willed, capricious, sexually compelling woman who thinks exclusively of herself was close to the offstage personality that made Callas so famous. --Joe McLellan
Carmen - Maria Callas
Don José - Nicolai Gedda
Escamillo - Robert Massard
Micaela - Andrea Guiot
Frasquita - Nadine Sautereau
Jane Berbié - Mercedes
Conductor Georges Prêtre
Recorded in Wagram Hall, Paris, France, July 1964
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