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BIZET, G.: Carmen Jones (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (1943) / Carmen Jones (1954 Film Soundtrack) (excerpts)

Composer(s):Bizet, Georges
Artist(s)
Period(s) Romantic
Genre Classical Music
Category Film and TV Music • Musicals
Catalogue 8.120875
Label Naxos
Quality   320kbps
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A wonderful piece of history
Review By youmike,April 2013

I saw the movie of Carmen Jones when it was first released and have just re-visited it. This was so enjoyable that I looked for a recording of the soundtrack and was surprised to find this recording of the original Broadway cast.

It was a delightful find, made even more so by the inclusion of parts of the film soundtrack. Being able to compare the two just adds to the joy. I highly recommend this CD to others with similar tastes and my compliments to Naxos for the care with which they prepared the contents of the CD. But then it's just what we've come to expect from them.


Review By Catherine Surowiec, Whatsonstage.com,February 2010

After a decade of commercial flops, in the winter of 1942 Oscar Hammerstein II sat down to indulge his lifelong love of opera. The result was Carmen Jones, his masterful recrafting of Bizet’s Carmen, arguably one of the best modern adaptations of a classical opera, with its setting transposed from 19th-century Spain to South Carolina during World War II, fashioned for an all-black cast. Hammerstein’s theatrical fortunes would change with Oklahoma! the following year, and in late 1943 Carmen Jones opened on Broadway to critical raves.

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