Bizet Carmen

Live recording from Oper Zurich, 2008, DVD release 2014. Jonas Kaufmann, 'the Prince of Tenors', appears with international star Vesselina Kasarova in Zürich Opera's starkly palpable staging of Bizet's ever-popular Carmen. The production sees Don José (Kaufmann) abandon his teenage attitudes in pursuit of Kasarova's free and independent Carmen - realising too late that his self-control has vanished, along with his youth.

• Matthias HartmannDirector
• Felix BreisachDirector
• Henri MeilhacWriter
• Ludovic HalévyWriter
• Georges BizetOriginal Music Composer

• Jonas KaufmannDon José
• Vesselina KasarovaCarmen
• Michele PertusiEscamillo
• Isabel ReyMicaëla
• Morgan MoodyZuniga
• Krešimir StražanacMoralés
• Michele PertusiCast
• Sen GuoCast
• Judith SchmidCast
• Gabriel BermúdezCast
• Javier CamarenaCast
• Franz Welser-MöstConductor