Trivia / Carmen

• All-Star Cast: As Carmen, Don José, Micaela, and Escamillo...
  • Audio Recordings:
    • 1951, conducted by Fritz Reiner: Risë Stevens, Jan Peerce, Licia Albanese, Robert Merrill.
    • 1963, conducted by Thomas Schippers: Regina Resnik, Mario Del Monaco, Joan Sutherland, Tom Krause.
    • 1963, conducted by Herbert von Karajan: Leontyne Price, Franco Corelli, Mirella Freni, Robert Merrill.
    • 1970, conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos: Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers, Mirella Freni, Kostas Paskalis.
    • 1975, conducted by Georg Solti: Tatiana Troyanos, Plácido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, José van Dam.
    • 1977, conducted by Claudio Abbado: Teresa Berganza, Plácido Domingo, Ileana Cotrubas, Sherrill Milnes.
    • 1983, conducted by Herbert von Karajan: Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, José van Dam.
    • 1988, conducted by Seiji Ozawa: Jessye Norman, Neil Shicoff, Mirella Freni, Simon Estes.
    • 2002, conducted by Michel Plasson: Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Inva Mula, Thomas Hampson.
  • Video Recordings:
    • 1978, conducted by Carlos Kleiber at the Vienna State Opera: Elena Obraztsova, Plácido Domingo, Isobel Buchanan, Yuri Mazurok.
    • 1987, conducted by James Levine at the Met Opera: Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras, Leona Mitchell, Samuel Ramey.
    • 2006, conducted by Antonio Pappano at the Royal Opera House: Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jonas Kaufmann, Norah Amsellem, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo.
    • 2010, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the Met Opera: Elina Garanca, Roberto Alagna, Barbara Frittoli, Teddy Tahu Rhodes.
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  • The video game Persona 5 represents Carmen as Ann Takamaki's Persona. The Updated Re-release, Persona 5 Royal, would give her a third tier persona, Célestine, named after one of Carmen's most notable actresses.
  • The music is pretty much everywhere, but most connected beyond Carmen to the 1976 film The Bad News Bears.
  • The song "Carmen" by Stromae uses the tune of "Habanera". It's not a cover but the lyrics are reworked into a Take That! against social networks.
  • In Punch-Out!!, Don Flamenco's leitmotif is a section from "March of the Toreadors", and his girlfriend is named Carmen.

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